New logo: Futbol

Futbol and Futbol+ (Футбол, Футбол+) are two Ukrainian TV channels completely dedicated to football (soccer). Last week, on September 8, they introduced new logos for the new football season. The redesign intends to distinguish the two channels from each other by giving them separate on-air graphics.
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New logo: Odessa

Odessa is a the third largest city in Ukraine, located in the south of the country at the shore of the Black Sea. Last week, on June 6, the city opened a "Tourist Information Center" and also introduced a new tourism logo.

Created by Art. Lebedev Studio, the new symbol is a combination on an anchor and a heart shape. You may also imagine a lighthouse and some waves in it. As usual, the studio has developed and elaborate set of guidelines and applications that bring the new identity to life.
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New logo: Kiev TSUM

TSUM (ЦУМ an abbreviation of Центральный Универсальный Магазин, meaning roughtly "Central Department Store"), is a name used for the most prestigous department store in several former Soviet countries. The TSUM in Kiev, Ukraine, was built in the 1930s and recently closed for a renovation that will shake off its Soviet past. A part of this will be a new corporate identity, created by Landor Associates in Hamburg and revealed in late January/early February.
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New logo: Kiev

Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine, has held a contest to select a new logo. After a public appeal, ten entries were selected and put up to an online vote between February 6 and March 6. The entry that got the most votes can bee seen above and features four blobs in different colours, all representing different aspects of the city:

• A blue drop for the Dnieper River, which runs through the city
• A green chestnut for Kiev's parks
• A yellow dome for the temples
• A red heart characterising Kiev as a city where there is love and goodness. It also resembles the wings of Michael the Archangel, who is depicted in the city's coat of arms.

Is also included a slogan, which translates as "The city where it all starts". The logo was created by the marketing company fedoriv.com and a design bureau called Karandash.

Unlike many other online logo contests, voters were treated with a large amount of images, explaining the logo and showing applications. You can still see them on the logo voting page at http://newlogo.kiev.ua/. The other entries, and a selection of images from the winner are presented below. A design process montage can be found here.
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New logo: Lviv International Airport

Lviv International Airport, located near the city of Lviv in Ukraine, unveiled a new logo yesterday. As the airport is dedicated to a 13th century king names Danylo Halytskyi, the logo depicts a crown made up of five tailfins.

The logo was selected through a contest won by a man named Victor Fedyuk.
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New logo: Ukrnafta

Ukrnafta is largest producer of oil and gas in the Ukraine. On Wednesday, June 8, it unveiled a new logo. The new logo is a more modern, stylized and standardized interpretation of the company's previous logo and was created by the Kiev design studio BelkaStrelka.

Previous logo.

The previous logo was a complex emblem with a drilling tower which included the initials У and Н, with two drops on the sides. The type seen above doesn't seem to have been a permanent part of the logo.
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New logo: Crimea

Crimea (Крим in Ukrainian) is an autonomous republic in southern Ukraine. It area corresponds to a peninsula of the same name which is located in the Black Sea, mostly separated from the rest of Ukraine.

On March 2, an official competition to create a new logo to market the peninsula to tourists. The previous logo was now considered dated and hard to use.

Out of 307 received entries, the committee selected seven which would go through more testing with focus groups on April 26. This eliminated four of the entries. The winner of the remaing three was determined yesterday, May 26, at committee meeting, based on "expert opinion". It was created by the Kiev agency iBrand Design Consulting and can be seen above. The slogan in it says "Жемчужина мира", which mean "Pearl of the World", but that was romved in the design presented yester day, so it may perhaps not be a part of the final design.
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New logo: Intertelecom

Intertelecom (Інтертелеком in Ukrainian) is a Ukrainian mobile telecom operator. They introduced a refreshed identity on March 21, 2011.

Many elements from the old logo have been kept, like yellow and blue colour scheme from the Ukrainian flag and the swirly symbol, which the company calls a "sail". But they have been given a more contemporary look, and the "sail" icon now interacts better with the wordmark which is set in a more modern typeface. The motive has clearly been to value equity and rejuvinate at the same time.

The new logo was designed with the Ukrainian creative agency Tabasco.

Previous logo

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