Euro Cup 2012 Poland

UEFA EURO 2012™ Poland-Ukraine official logo

The official logo, visual identity and slogan for UEFA EURO 2012™ have been unveiled at a unique occasion in Kyiv’s Mykhailivska Square with co-hosts Ukraine and Poland looking forward to ‘Creating History Together’. Star guests Polish Football Association President Grzegorz Lato, his Football Federation of Ukraine counterpart Grigoriy Surkis and UEFA President Michel Platini officially unwrapped the logo as the highlight of the launch proceedings. The ceremony was attended by the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, representatives from the eight host cities Gdansk, Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kyiv and numerous other dignitaries. Visual identity The purpose of the logo is to give UEFA EURO 2012™ a personality of its own, with the visual identity to be applied across a range of promotional applications from tickets to internet banners. The objective is to help promote the tournament one of the world’s greatest sporting events by providing an effortlessly recognisable identity with a flavour of the host nations. The logo takes its visual lead from ‘wycinanka’, the standard art of paper cutting practised in rural areas of Poland and Ukraine, as a tribute to the fauna and flora of the region. EURO bloom The ‘bloom’ logo has a flower representing each of the co-host nations and a central ball symbolising the emotion and passion of the competition, even though the stem denotes the structural aspect of the competition, UEFA and …
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