The largest Scouting event held in San Clemente, RSM’s hometown, had over 200 volunteers and 180 Boy Scouts offering over 20 different classes for local Boy Scouts to earn their merit badges in a variety of different disciplines. RSM team members volunteered to teach the Graphic Arts and Architecture merit badge session, educating the Scouts [...]
The UCR Chancellor, Tim White, appeared on CBS’s ‘Undercover Boss’ on May 10th. The promo from the episode features the UCR letters RSM designed for the student commons on campus. We’re excited to see the sculptural letters have become an iconic piece of the UCR campus.
The signage and graphics package designed for the University of California Riverside’s Highlander Union Building (HUB) has been completed just in time for the 2010 fall semester.
During the commons expansion project, the students on the building committee had asked for a signature monument – a “Kodak moment” location, and now the large UCR sign at [...]
Can you tell one typeface from another?
Distinguishing the differences between fonts such as Helvetica and Times Roman are fairly obvious, but when comparing other typefaces that are similar in design it is harder for most to see.
There is a science to examining the anatomy of letters that make up our alphabet. Becoming acquainted with the [...]
RSM has been selected as the architectural graphics consultant for the new Aztec Student Center on the San Diego State University campus.
Projected to open in late 2013, this new student union building will feature many on campus amenities for the students including a market, fitness center, food court, theater, retail spaces, bowling alley, and individual [...]
Continuing their many projects on college campuses, the design team at RSM is creating an architectural signage and graphics package for the new conference center located on the University of California at Davis campus. Situated adjacent to the cultural complex on campus and across from the renowned Mondavi Center, this new UC Davis Marketplace will [...]
Have you ever wondered how traffic engineers know how tall to make the letters on a freeway sign so that you still won’t miss the exit? Or how far away a person walking in a downtown street will see the entrance to that awesome new sushi restaurant? Or why you can see the Las Vegas [...]
The RSM team is currently working with UCR to implement the signage package for the University of California – Riverside, Commons Building. Finding the perfect locations for each sign type can be challanging on an existing project. Our team walked through the project with the UCR administration and student team members to place the scale mock-ups [...]
Are these signs for real?! You bet. Over the years we have come across some pretty funny signs while researching and traveling. Be sure to share with us some of your favorites. Feel free to send them to info@rsmdesign.net and we will post them in the future.
RSM Design would like you to meet our summer interns, Graham, Elizabeth and Cooper. The trio are all imports from Dallas and Houston, and will be entering their senior year of high school this fall.
Here to learn the day-to-day functions of working in an environmental graphic design firm, they have so far taken part in [...]