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Fresh signs, 3D letters, neon and facade branding we’ve made and installed across Ukraine. See TheFace’s latest projects.
An ŌNE Sushi Lightbox on a Panel of Light
The entrance sits in the shade of a balcony, so the light comes in two stages: a wide white panel lifts the general level under the soffit, and the blue box with the name stands proud of it and does the naming.
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A RIDNE Pylon on a Mast That Was Already There
The panel is built from horizontal composite sections: nothing lifts a face that tall in one piece, and nothing holds it from a basket. The seam between trays goes in the gap between letters.
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Joker Neon Panels for a Dark Room
Two panels for a dark room: the neon traces the outline of the figure, while the face and the folds are printed. Flexible neon will not follow small detail; its minimum bend radius is a few centimetres.
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Bilingual Halo-Lit Sign for the NIBULON Office
The Cyrillic and Latin versions come out different widths at the same point size, so the logo went between them and does the work of a symmetry axis.
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Two Signs on One Wall: Je t’aime and fastline studio
A cosmetology clinic on top, a studio below, one frame for both. To stop the two signs cancelling each other out, they were separated by type of light: one lit through its faces, the other with its colour gathered into a single lightbox.
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Metal Letters on Granite for Horizon Office Towers
The letters go onto polished granite, which reflects them, so any misalignment is shown to you twice. Every hole was drilled with a diamond bit through a glued-on template, and none of them can be moved.
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A Red Fish and White Letters: the UOJI SUSHI Sign
Two blocks of different natures on one line: a solid red shape with the name cut straight through it, and a row of white dimensional letters. The hard part is aligning a shape that has no baseline.
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Veterano Pizza's Neon Wings Indoors
The emblem is built from long straight rays — one of the rare cases where flexible neon plays to its strengths: even runs and sharp corners instead of small curves.
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Kyiv Capitals: Dimensional Letters and an Acrylic Plate
One word became dimensional letters, the other an application on a clear plate. The reason is simple: the second word is half the cap height, and a small dimensional letter both holds worse and takes longer to line up.
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Neon Lettering and Figures on Gym Walls
Dumbbells with a slogan on the free-weights wall, a runner under a corridor ceiling, a Street Fit sign over the functional area. Indoors neon is both wayfinding and a backdrop for photos, so we bend it in flexible LED: it does not shatter and it does not mind the damp.
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Signage for Sport Life Gyms
One club got the name running vertically up a red column, another a colour-lit set behind glass across two storeys, a third halo-lit letters on stone inside a mall. The format is dictated not by taste but by where the sign is seen from.
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The Rock Oil Box on Its Test Switch-On
The shaped box sits on a bench, wired up temporarily. Every lightbox we build gets switched on in the workshop before it leaves. The test is simple: if you can see where the LEDs are, it is not finished.
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Interior Lettering and Neon for the UPstage Tuning Studio
Red UPstage lettering on the bay wall, unlit, plus a neon script line on the end wall. Neon was chosen for the side wall because unlit letters there drop straight into shadow.
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A Signage Set for the Prychal 8 Development
A large structure on the unfinished facade, a fascia on the sales pavilion, and the same emblem inside the hall. For a developer, signage works long before the building exists.
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Sign for the Felicità Food Market
Two structures in one sign: a script name in 3D letters, and an oval lightbox underneath that explains what kind of shop this actually is.
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Shop Signs Inside Shopping Centres
Three units in shopping centres: sweets, socks, jewellery. The formats differ, but every job starts the same way, with the landlord's rulebook setting fascia height, projection and often letter height too.
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Signs for Restaurants & Cafes — Our Work across Ukraine
3D letters for the facade, a lightbox over the entrance, neon accents in the room, menu boards and wayfinding inside. We keep the light soft, so the name glows without glaring.
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Signs for Coffee Shops across Ukraine — Our Work
Compact facade signs, projecting blade signs that read along the street, window branding and a warm neon accent inside. A coffee shop is recognised from the pavement in a couple of seconds, and everything is sized for that.
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Signs for Beauty Salons & Barbershops — Our Work
Neat 3D letters over the door, a facade panel carrying the name, a thin strip of neon in the window. We keep the light soft and warm: the name reads in the evening but glows quietly.
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Signs for Shops & Boutiques — Our Work
Front-lit 3D letters when the name has to hold from a distance. A lightbox when you need one bright, solid lit surface. Plus a dressed window and wayfinding by the door.
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Signs for Dental Clinics & Medical Offices across Ukraine
Two formats cover most of the work: an illuminated box on the facade and a set of plaques inside — clinic name, room numbers, opening hours, tactile signs. Even light, a clean typeface, nothing extra.
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Signs for Car Dealers, Auto Service & Detailing — Our Work
Facade panels the length of the building, a pylon at the entrance, branded service cars. We have been doing this since 1996, and every choice is worked out for the distance the sign will actually be read from.
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Signs for Flower Shops — Examples of Our Work
A flower shop lives off its window and the people passing by, and there is rarely much room for a sign. We make small, tidy storefronts with soft warm lighting that do not argue with the bouquets behind the glass.
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Signs for Grocery Stores — Our Work across Ukraine
Large-format lightboxes with an even glow, 3D letters carrying the name, a fascia over the entrance. Bread-and-milk trade runs all day, so the sign has to work in sunlight and keep working once the neighbours' windows come on.
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Signage for the viyar Furniture Showroom Chain
One name, four buildings, three different wall colours: dark seam-clad metal, a hundred metres of pale render, brick. The size was recalculated every time; the proportion of logo to strapline never changed.
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Sign and Window Graphics for the YABLUKA Electronics Store
The real competition here comes from inside. The lit posters and the screens behind them are brighter than any quiet sign above the door, so the letters were made large, pale and front-lit. The fitting was done overnight.
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Halo-Lit Letters for the Vapors Store
Pink rather than white: every neighbouring unit runs cold white, and in the evening flow that difference is what people register.
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Bracket Signs for Dental Clinics: Two Formats
A rectangle carrying two lines of text, and a more compact circle with just the logo. Both are double-sided, because they are spotted along the pavement long before the entrance.
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3D Logo for the EtnoDent Dental Clinic
The EtnoDent mark is a tooth filled with embroidery. Shapes like that do not come out of a letter catalogue — every element of the pattern is milled separately.
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Signage for the Astra Dent Clinic Network
A new building in dark seam cladding, a corner unit in an apartment block, a heritage stone frontage. The size and make-up of the sign changed every time; the hard part was making a patient recognise the second clinic after the first.
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Gold Interior Letters for Knyazev Flower
The mirror-gold letters hang at bouquet height so they land in frame alongside the flowers on the worktop.
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Signage for the CoCo Floral Couture Boutique
One boutique, three sets of letters: halo-lit above the canopy, gold straight onto the glass, mirror-faced inside. One typeface throughout; only the face material and the size change.
Read moreHalo-Lit Signs for the BuketLand Flower Shop
One long halo-lit line on dark render, and a second, smaller sign inside at bouquet height. The letters are white, the light is warm, and all the brightness is left to the window.
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Window Neon for a Cosmetology Studio
The outline of a face and one word, drawn in a single unbroken run of flexible neon set right against the glass. The colour is a cool green: warm light in a window blends into the streetlamps and disappears.
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Halo-Lit Letters for Ishchenko Studio
The returns are about six centimetres deep: less gives a hard-edged halo, more spreads it into a shapeless patch. The diamond logo hangs between the two lines so they do not merge into one bright rectangle.
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Facade Sign and Window Graphics for VUSACH Barber Shop
Four identical glazed bays in a row and no clue which ones are yours. The sign and the glass were drawn as one long horizontal: a black fascia the full width, line-drawn portraits on two bays, a barber pole between them.
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Lightbox and Window Graphics for Rufford Barbershop
A black illuminated box over the entrance, and nearly all the information on the glass: the logo on the door, opening hours, a phone number, and a large silhouette that doubles as a screen between the chair and the pavement.
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Signage for the Edel Dorf Sales Office
The pavilion was clad in dark timber and all the graphics made pale. The EDEL DORF lettering sits on the blank wall facing the road, which drivers see for longer than they see the entrance.
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Sign for the kavazavr Coffee Kiosk
A red panel across the full width of a timber kiosk. The colour had to be saturated: on pale wood a pale sign reads as part of the structure. It arrived finished and pre-drilled, so the whole fitting took one visit.
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ABSURD Food Truck: Full Wrap and Rooftop Letters
The white ABSURD letters went on the roof, because the body was already taken up by a full wrap. From up there the name clears the heads of the queue and the cars parked alongside.
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Round Lightbox for the PLUSH Coffee Shop
The entrance is set into dark brick, with no canopy and no shopfront. In the evening a green lit disc beside the door marks it: on uneven brickwork a circle sits straighter than a rectangle.
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Bracket Sign for the KiiT Coffee Shop on a Heritage Facade
The coffee shop has one window and a door in an old building with moulded plasterwork. The fixing turned out harder than the panel: you cannot drill the mouldings, so it landed on plain brick between the rustication.
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Lettering on the Orange Facade of Toloka Maison
Matte black letters with a deep return and no illumination: against bright orange the contrast is already at its maximum, and the ground-floor window light picks the name up at night.
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Lightbox for the LET’S MEAT Cafe
A printed translucent face in black: the name, knife icons and a halal mark on the right. On a dark face, any unevenness in the light shows at once.
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Sign and Windows for Massimo Gelarty
Two levels of text, two sizes, one sign: "Massimo Gelarty" holds the facade from across the street, while the fine "restaurant & gelateria" line is read from the pavement.
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Evening-Lit Sign for PARK Restaurant
A restaurant earns its money after dark, so the PARK sign was designed for darkness: warm letters, a lit entrance line, and no cold glare on anyone's face.
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3D Sign for the Mr. & Mrs. Burger Diner
Acrylic and PVC pieces in the two brand colours, with the same return depth across the whole composition. The fixings sit behind the pieces, so no studs or rails show on the brick.
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