Date

September - October 2025

Project

Logo design

Client

Mumbai Musafir

Duration

2 months

Capturing Mumbai Musafir's Discovery in a Single Mark

Client Overview

Mumbai Musafir is a curated experiential travel brand offering expert-led trails, workshops and domestic and international tours rooted in culture, history and nature. Positioned between mass travel agencies and academic heritage tours, it focuses on perspective, discovery and storytelling-led journeys.

About Project

Mumbai Musafir engaged Umanshi to design a logo that could represent diverse offerings from city walks to international travel without becoming generic. The logo needed to feel mid-premium, discovery-led and human, while remaining legible at small digital sizes and flexible for future growth beyond Mumbai.

Challenge

The logo had to capture culture, history and nature without leaning on overused travel symbols. Compressing layered experiences into a single, recognisable mark required deliberate restraint.

The founders were highly involved yet undecided on direction. Multiple logo options were explored and revised as preferences evolved around font style, mnemonic usage and visual symbolism.

The logo had to sit above mass travel brands but below luxury. Too playful felt unserious; too refined felt intimidating for a curiosity-driven, urban audience.

Our Strategy

The biggest challenge was not design, it was decision-making. We converted vague preferences into concrete inputs by structuring the discussion around clear levers:

1. font personality (handwritten vs clean)
2. stroke weight and readability
3. colour intent and usage context
4. mnemonic necessity versus wordmark-led recall

This reduced circular feedback and gave the process direction.

We ran the logo through deliberate revision cycles, each addressing a different tension: recognisability vs. ownability, warmth vs. credibilit and depth vs. simplicity. Directions like discovery hubs and layered symbols were explored, evaluated and consciously dropped when they felt clever but emotionally distant.

The final logo direction emerged after stepping away from the idea of visual landmarks and literal travel symbols. A clear insight guided the decision: Mumbai Musafir isn’t remembered through monuments or icons, but through the routes people take, the stories they collect and the way the city slowly reveals itself. The brand lives in movement and narration, not imagery.

This thinking led to a wordmark-led identity designed to feel like a journey in itself. The “Mumbai” signature flows like a hand-drawn trail: human, informal and exploratory, mirroring how a Musafir experiences the city: with curiosity, pauses and detours. In contrast, “MUSAFIR” is treated with structure and restraint, bringing balance through clarity, credibility and intent.

Together, the two elements create a logo that reflects both sides of the brand: storytelling and guidance. The result is a mark that doesn’t dictate a destination but invites participation, allowing the brand to be remembered not by a symbol, but by the experience it represents.

Testimonial

Partnering to Build a Distinctive Brand

Launching into the Indian market, we needed a partner who could help us cut through a crowded category and express our unique blend of fragrance, wellness and personalization with clarity and emotion. Umanshi’s structured approach is helping us build visibility, spark early interest and engage the right stakeholders during our pre-launch phase. They are playing a key role in shaping how Scentzania is perceived from day one.

Prachi Saini
Founder & Managing Director, Scentopia Singapore
Mumbai Musafir Travel Agency Logo Design by Umanshi Branding
Mumbai Musafir Travel Agency Logo Design by Umanshi Branding
Mumbai Musafir Travel Agency Logo Design by Umanshi Branding
Mumbai Musafir Travel Agency Logo Design by Umanshi Branding

Built for Business Outcomes

Clear Positioning

Captured Mumbai Musafir’s mid-premium, experiential stance—neither mass travel nor academic heritage tours.

Digital Usability

Designed to remain legible and recognisable across Instagram, thumbnails and small digital formats.

Future Flexibility

A wordmark-led logo that can travel beyond “Mumbai” as the business expands.

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