Visakhapatnam

Why this icon INS Kursura, a submarine museum on RK Beach since 2002. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

A bright winter morning on RK Beach: INS Kursura, the long black submarine laid up on the beach as a museum, rests on its white cradle in its lawn while visitors climb the steps to its hatch; a traveller walks up the sand toward it past a balloon seller, the Bay of Bengal's waves roll in and Dolphin's Nose closes the bay.

Why this picture

INS Kursura, a Soviet-built Foxtrot-class submarine commissioned in 1969, served the Indian Navy until 2001 and was hauled up onto Ramakrishna Beach to open in 2002 as South Asia's first submarine museum, its whole 91 m hull on show and its narrow insides open to visitors in guided groups. The beach faces east over the Bay of Bengal, closed to the south by Dolphin's Nose, a 174 m headland with a lighthouse; palmyra palms line the coast, beach morning glory creeps over the sand and Brahminy kites hang over the surf.

The sky wears Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

The sea's rows run, each its own way, and waves roll in over the sand; a Brahminy kite wheels wide over the beach; the traveller walks; the balloons bob; the morning glory's leaves stir; the palms sway; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Sky #9CDCF9

Lagoon #34C2D7

Ocean #0072BC

Visakhapatnam takes Ocean #0072BC, one of the three Waters colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Visakhapatnam

A second scene: another true moment at Visakhapatnam, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

First light on Visakhapatnam's shore: volunteers have just let a batch of olive ridley hatchlings go, and the tiny turtles scuttle down the sand into the Bay of Bengal's waves, two close by rowing hard with their tracks behind them, while a traveller waves them off from a respectful distance and ghost crabs dart about; the sun rises out of the sea and Dolphin's Nose closes the bay.

Why this moment

Olive ridley turtles nest on Visakhapatnam's beaches from about December to March; the forest department and volunteers run hatcheries along the city's coast and let the hatchlings go on the sand at dawn so they crawl to the sea themselves, watched from a distance and never handled. The city's beaches face east, so the sun rises out of the Bay of Bengal; Dolphin's Nose, a 174 m headland with a lighthouse, closes the bay to the south, palmyras stand along the coast and ghost crabs run the sand at dawn.

The sky wears a faint Ikat chowka, from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

The motion

The hatchlings scuttle down the sand into the wash, the near ones' flippers rowing; the sea's rows run and waves roll onto the sand; the rising sun's fan of rays breathes; birds cross the dawn sky; ghost crabs dart; the palmyras sway. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Visakhapatnam in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Visakhapatnam, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

Dolphin's NoseMonument
Dolphin's Nose, the 174 m rocky headland that closes Vizag's bay, named for its shape; its lighthouse's beam guides ships into the port from some 64 km out.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Moori mixtureOf the place
Moori mixture, Vizag's beach-road snack: puffed rice (borugulu) tossed with onion, tomato, green chilli, coriander and peanuts, handed over in a paper cone.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Visakhapatnam 3

Detailed icons from the library that name Visakhapatnam among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Visakhapatnam alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Visakhapatnam's Zobus

Zobu in Visakhapatnam's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

The animals of Visakhapatnam

Animals and birds the research behind Visakhapatnam's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

Olive ridley sea turtleLepidochelys olivacea
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Ghost crabOcypode ceratophthalmus
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Visakhapatnam needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

44 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols and its Zobus included

Profile

Visakhapatnam’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Visakhapatnam’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG