Logo and banner design is a year-round activity with local guides in India.
There are occasional contests to though local guides design mostly out of interest and passion.
Most designs are used in badges, logos, stickers, cards, banners, TShirts
The designs are made for various occasions, locations, and campaigns.
The designs are then used as follows:
- WhatsApp group icons.
- Badges.
- Printing stickers and cards that are shared via post or distributed at meetups.
- Printed banners for the meetups.
- YouTube channel banners, preview images, and other social media.
The various topics and categories are:
- India Local Guides
Credits: The third logo above is created by @Praniketmore
Ajit Thite created all the other logos.
- State LG groups
Local guides from the various states in India have created their special logos.
Below are logos and banners for the states of Maharashtra by @AjitThite, Bihar, Telangana, Kerala, and Gujarat.
Credits:
Maharashtra LG logo by @AjitThite
Telangana LG logo by @Rakshith_LG
Bihar LG logo by @giteshsharma
Kerala LG logo by @SarathUpendran
Gujarat LG logos by - @KetanChhaniyara and @NareshDarji
- City LG Groups
Local guides in various cities proudly create attractive logos to highlight tourist attractions and cultural significance.
Credits: Most logos above are created by @Shubhu1
Nashik logo created by @Shreeish
- Small Business Support
Local guides in India actively participate in meetups and challenges that support local mall businesses and artists.
Here are some of the logos.
Many are printed on badges, stickers, and cards and freely distributed at meetups.
Credits:
Top Left logo by @MerlinThomas
Top Right logo by @AjitThite
All other logos by @TusharSuradkar
- Accessibility
12 local guides in India are recognized as Accessibility Champions.
They design and print stickers.
Then they stick them at places found to be accessible.
Local guides also update these places as accessible on Google Maps.
Credits:
Top logos by @Rakshith_LG
Bottom logo by @NERKARAMIT
- Foodcrawls
Food crawl meetups are popular in India.
In this country stretching 3500 km x 3500 km, dozens of distinct food items are found every 100 kilometers.
Credits:
Almost all food logos created by @HinalLad
- Banners
Banners are mostly created for meetups
Meetups in all major cities have their unique banners
Local guides proudly pose with the banners during meetups.
Credits:
All banners in the photo above are created by @Raj_Tayade
- LGBTQ Small Business Support
- Ramen Day Meetups
- TRAC
Special designs for special occasions are a big hit.
Local guides unleash their creativity on such occasions.
Credits:
Women-Led Small Business logo created by @Rahul001
LGBTQ logo created by @Rahul001
The Ramen Meetup logo was created by Amit Nerkar.
- Souvenir Cards
Souvenir cards are signed by all local guides during meetups.
The main aim of this activity is to meet and greet each other, especially when we meet for the first time.
Local guides enjoy signing souvenir cards as they chat and sip tea 
Credits:
All souvenir cards designed and printed by @TusharSuradkar
- Appreciation cards for meetup hosts
A beautiful appreciation card is given to every local guide who hosts a meetup.
This encourages other local guides to come forward to host a meetup.
Here is an unmatched leaderboard of local guides who hosted meetups in 2024.
Credits:
Appreciation card for meetup host - designed and printed by Tushar Suradkar.
- Appreciation Cards for first-time attendees
Local guides who attend their first meetups are appreciated too with a lovely card.
Credits:
Appreciation card for attending the first meetup - designed and printed by Tushar Suradkar.
- Certificates
Local guides in India love designing and printing certificates.
They then award to winners of quiz contests, logo contests, and so on…
In the photo below are Ajit Thite and @Durgak03 awarding certificates.
Credits:
Certificates designed, printed, and awarded by Tushar Suradkar, Ajit Thite, and Durga Karapurkar.
- Chai pe Charcha Tea Talks Challenge
Local guides in India actively throw challenges and also participate in them.
The Chai pe Charcha - Tea Talk challenge is a smashing hit.
We already have 15 Amazing Stories of local guides who ventured out to support local small and micro businesses.
Local guides proudly design and display the logo for the contest with their tea cups.
Credits:
Chai pe Charcha challenge and logo designed, printed, and freely distributed by Tushar Suradkar.
- One Year of Meetups in India
Recently we celebrated the first anniversary of meetups in the state of Maharashtra.
A logo design contest was held on this occasion.
We had 60+ entries.
All designs were (1) Printed as glossy rounded cards and (2) Shipped to participants on their postal addresses.
Credits:
Logos for the one-year meetup were designed by various local guides mentioned on the cards, printed, and freely distributed by Tushar Suradkar.
- 50 meetups in a year
Local guides in India also came together to celebrate 50 meetups in 2024.
This occasion was graced by supportive Googler @Latika_Malhotra
Local guides in India designed logos and banners just for this meetup.
Credits:
50 Meetups in the year 2024 logo designed by Ajit Thite, Shubhangi Patil, and printed, and freely distributed by Tushar Suradkar.
- 10 Years of Local Guides
This event is in full swing globally.
Local guides in India are upbeat about this occasion.
@NareshDarji has already set the ball rolling with his Global Celebration Cards for the Local Guides 10th Anniversary.
Entries are pouring in dozens by local guides in India.
Credits:
The 10 Years of Google Local Guides logos are designed by various local guides and printed and freely distributed by Tushar Suradkar.
Enthusiastic local guides print these on cards and T-shirts.
They proudly wear the t-shirts at various meetups.
The logos are printed as stickers and cards and also displayed proudly at various meetups:
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- 10-Year Logo Rewards
The jackpot is the galaxy of awards that will be given for this latest contest.
The jury for these rewards consists of active local guides who are also experts in the graphic designing field.
The full album can be seen here.
Some of the judges are the previous top contributors and award-winners who are best suited for selecting the winner of the logo, banner, sticker, card, and T-shirt design contests.
thanks to your for always encourage the local guides .
