In-house sign production across Ukraine since 1996
TheFace is a full-cycle outdoor-advertising manufacturer across Ukraine. We design, build and install signs with our own crew — from sketch to a lit facade.
- Design, production, installation and service — one contractor, no subcontracting
- Permits and council approvals handled by us
- One-year warranty, and servicing after it
Our story
We’ve been making signs since 1996. Back then there were no CNC routers, no composite panels, no flexible neon, and clients preferred to pay cash, in dollars.
A few decades in, one thing is clear. What we’ve held onto is, on one side, the experience and the knack for turning a project around on the tightest deadline; on the other, technologists and design engineers who have worked out more than a few genuinely offbeat client requests over the years.
We also have a feeling that the three technologies running the sign market today — composite panels, dimensional letters and cold neon — will stay relevant for another 10–15 years.
Maybe that’s why about 90% of what we make falls into exactly those three.
In 2023–2025 we handed over 50–70 wildly different jobs a year, in Ukraine and abroad, and we’re sure the sign industry, in the classic sense, hasn’t said its last word.
New ideas keep coming, new materials, new technology. A new fashion sets in, a new style takes shape. And our company, happily, is part of it.
Our workshop
Our own workshop at 29 Olzhycha St in Kyiv: metal, acrylic, composite, LED. The crew that builds the sign is the crew that installs it.
What we do in-house, and how
The workshop at 29 Olzhycha St — 200 m² under roof plus a 150 m² yard where the steel work is done. The engineer, the maker and the installer all work here, so a sign never changes hands between contractors.
Engineering and cutting
Our engineer breaks the sign into parts and works out the fixing points for that particular wall. Then it is cut and milled: acrylic, composite, PVC, metal.
Metalwork and welding
Frames, sub-structures, brackets and pylon bases are welded by us. That is what the yard is for: long steel cannot be turned indoors. The mitre cutting, the bending of returns and the fitting of joints happen there too.
Printing and faces
We print lightbox faces, banners, window film and vehicle graphics. A box face is removable, so a rebrand means reprinting it rather than building a new housing.
Neon and lighting
We bend and lay out 12 V flexible neon at the bench, on an acrylic backer or along the letter contours; we also work in classic glass. LED modules go in so the light falls evenly, then drivers are fitted and cable entries sealed.
Assembly and a test switch-on
The sign is assembled in full and lit in the workshop before it ships: we look at how evenly it glows, at the colours, at the animation modes. What goes to the facade has already been switched on.
Installation by our own crew
The same people who built it. Work at height, wiring, aligning letters on one baseline — the schedule and the result are ours to answer for, not a contractor’s.
Team
Yurii
Founder & CEO
Maksym
Software Solutions
Anton
Marketing Director
Oleksii
Head of Artwork & Layout
Andrii
Non-Standard Solutions
He works out how to build the things we haven’t built before. And when something on site doesn’t match the drawing, he is usually the one who finds the way round it.
Valentyn
Neon Signs
He picked up neon when we were only starting to move into it. Every neon sign we make now is his.
Volodymyr
Installation Foreman
He runs the crew on installs. The harder the structure, the more likely it is that he is the one on site.
Yurii
Industrial Climber
He works where the lift truck cannot get to: rope access, up high. The crew calls him the Beast.
Ready to discuss your project?
Tell us about the task — we’ll quote for free and suggest a solution.