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The art-inspired mural.
A LEARNING EXPERIENCE
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he new Robinson Community Learning Center (RCLC) in South Bend, Indiana, has been an ongoing program in the community for twenty years now providing educational classes, enrichment programs, and even theater activities for all ages. The RCLC is an off-campus educational initiative that’s a part of nearby University of Notre Dame and is also a celebration of the people in the area. The RCLC recently moved one block north to a newly built facility. It also brought along a new logo and branding featuring colorful abstract figures raising their hands together that was developed by the University of Notre Dame’s Mar24
Sign Builder Illustrated
April 2021
keting and Communications department. The new learning center includes identification site signs at its corners as well as a wayfinding directional on the property. The main building sports sets of letters-and-logo on its exterior, as well as an attention-grabbing, grid-like artistic mural. Inside colorful branding is present throughout, and artwork from the mural has been incorporated into the ADA, wayfinding, and room identification signage. The company responsible for designing these signs, as well as selecting its various fabricators, was Cardosi Kiper Design Group, a communications design firm based in Chicago, Illinois that develops wayfinding systems, branding programs,
and theming and experiential graphics. “Our main markets include higher education and healthcare,” says Ted Kiper of Cardosi Kiper (which he co-founded with his partner Kim Cardosi). Kiper says that their firm is in the business of “building relationships” with their clients. “You always start on the first project by getting to know one another and hopefully bring the project in on budget and on time,” he says. “Then after the second and third projects, there’s a ‘trust factor’ established.” One of the clients they’ve built a trusting relationship with over fifteen years now has been the University of Notre Dame, which led to the RCLC project. signshop.com
Photos: Valley City Sign.
FOR THE COMMUNITY
