Your GISMO Highlights

ISM brings you a range of exciting highlights centred around everyone’s favourite mascot, GISMO! Lab5 by ISM offers refreshing snacks and drinks in the GISMO Bar. On the central boulevard (Stand A30/B31) there is a grab-and-go vending machine filled to the brim with exclusive GISMO cuddly toys - ideal for a playful break and your chance to take a piece of GISMO home with you.

The Cologne Zoo will also be on hand, offering a unique chance to support real flamingos. With QR codes and donation options, visitors can directly adopt a flamingo and help protect these captivating animals.

And the excitement doesn’t stop there: look out for the “Real-Life” GISMO on tour! This animated mascot will make special appearances throughout the fair – at the opening, photo points, and various events. GISMO promises memorable encounters and brings the ISM experience to life in a whole new way.

ISM Partnership with Cologne Zoo

A very unique character

Our flamingo is everything but ordinary: GISMO's dietary habits differ from those of his fellow species, because his favourite diet comprises of sweets and snacks of all kinds. He has a special fondness for pink sweets, shoelaces and fruit gums. In spite of his preference for sugar confectionery, he maintains his weight (1.8 kg) - perhaps because standing only 100 cm tall he is still growing.

Insider, reporter and tip provider

GISMO's personality is coined by his liveliness, thirst for adventure and knowledge, by his friendliness, open-mindedness and playfulness. These characteristics not only make him likeable, but also turn him into a popular insider, reporter and tip provider.

As a multilingual bird, GISMO communicates in German and English to address the international audience of ISM.