Cyrillic Experiments

I wanted to start by looking at something new, and Cyrillic is very new to me.

I don't have any knowledge of the language it self apart from knowing that it is the base to many Eastern European languages, and is now the third most used character set below Latin and Greek.

I find that the letter forms themselves show immediate connection to Russia this being the main country using/founding the Cyrillic alphabet.
I wanted to look at how Latin logo's that I am familiar with would look when written using these characters, I used a web based application
(http://www.agora.org.mk/goodbytes/enmkonvert/default.asp)
to translate the characters for me and then redesigned the packet using a typeface face that matched or came close to that of a real 'Rizla' packet. I do understand that there may be some mistakes through translation.

I choose this for my first experiment as I felt that the original typeface allowed editions to be made to work with the Cyrillic aplabet. I did however learn that this is a very difficult task the image above is a quick rendition to get me used to the characters and help my further experiments.

Now to try some more of my favorite logo's and see where that gets me......