A lot of people think of Rajasthan as a desert. But, that’s not completely true 😉 Udaipur is known for the Aravalli ranges, lakes, and the palaces. We wanted to keep the same in mind while designing the logo and banner image.
So, we started looking around for inspiration. Udaipur’s City Palace is known for its beautiful architecture and that was the first place where we wanted to go hunting for inspiration.
Design Inspiration
The “Mor Chowk” in City Palace has beautiful designs of Peacocks in various positions. It’s incredibly beautiful and we decided to take that up as a major part of our logo.
Here’s an image from the Mor Chowk.
Colors
Mandaana (Line art) is a common art in Udaipur and Rajasthan. It’s used for wall paintings and also for painting “Rangoli” on the floor to welcome guests. It uses home-made colors of orange, brown, red and white. We decided to use the same in our logo as well.
So, now, we were done with our inspiration and ideas for the design and color scheme. We started working on this and Ramesh (Graphic designer at IdeaBox Creations) came up with multiple concepts.
The floral design resembles the Peacock art in the Mor Chow (as shown in the image above). We used vibrant colors to depict colorful Rajasthan.
While designing the logo we received great feedback and support from Vivek and Smita at rtCamp. Smita was kind enough to share some ideas for the logo and came up with following sketches
This was coming along nicely. Smita’s focus was on minimalism and creating a logo that looked more “hand-drawn” rather than a digital one.
Next, came the idea for designing the header image and once again, Smita came to our rescue with her creative skills.
Final Logo & Header Image
Finally, we ended up doing a combination of the ideas from Ramesh and Smita’s designs.
Brown / Orange color – for the traditional art.
Floral Design – Inspired from the Mor Chowk at City Palace, Udaipur.
Mountains – Aravalli Ranges
The wall – Depicting the forts and palaces of Udaipur.
It always feels good to see the end result of the efforts that we have put. Entire WordCamp Udaipur team is really proud of this creation.
