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MARCH 1, 2021|STORYTELLING


Brand Chernobyl: How To Tell An 88 Year Long Story With a Logo


The official logo designed for the Chernobyl exclusion zone

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant will forever be remembered for the 1986 disaster, but the work has been ongoing for the past 30+ years to decommission the plant and it will not be completed until approximately 2064. So how do you tell a story that long in a way that is both powerful and respectful?

An award-winning Ukrainian design agency offered a clever solution that features an annual logo that will slowly change in size over the next forty years as the region moves toward its long term goal. It's a great example of how simple, thoughtful design can tell a story more memorably than numbers on a page.

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