District-Wide School Branding — North Royalton City Schools

North Royalton City Schools: Portrait of a Bear across four buildings

DG Creativ installer applying the Portrait of a Bear wall graphic at North Royalton High School — Applying the Portrait of a Bear graphic at North Royalton High School.

Most districts have a statement of what they hope their graduates will become. Most of them live in a strategic plan that nobody outside the board office ever reads.

North Royalton wanted theirs where students would see it every day. Portrait of a Bear is the district’s own language for the kind of people it is trying to send out into the world — and the district decided it belonged on the walls of all four buildings: the administration building, the high school, the middle school and the elementary school.

Four buildings is where a project like this usually comes apart. Different buildings order at different times from whoever is available, and five years later nothing matches — same words, four typefaces, four shades of the school colour.

Portrait of a Bear wall graphic at North Royalton Middle School — North Royalton Middle School.

Portrait of a Bear wall graphic at North Royalton Elementary School — North Royalton Elementary School.

We printed and installed the Portrait of a Bear graphics across all four buildings as smooth wall film, applied directly to the finished wall. No frames, no substrate edges, no hardware. The graphic reads as part of the building rather than something hung on it.

Finished Portrait of a Bear wall graphic in the North Royalton High School lobby — North Royalton High School, finished.

Beliefs, vision and mission wall graphic at the North Royalton City Schools administration building — The administration building, carrying the district’s beliefs, vision and mission.

We had rebranded the high school gymnasium for North Royalton in the summer of 2025, so when the district came back to us in the summer of 2026, the new work could carry that same standard forward. The whole district install took a couple of days, finished before students returned for the 2026–2027 school year.

Installing a wall graphic at North Royalton Elementary School with the lower edge still unworked — Installing at the elementary school. The bottom edge is still loose — the film is worked down from the top.

What a district gets out of doing it this way

One visual standard across four buildings, and one partner holding the artwork — so the next building, the next phase and the next school year begin where the last one finished, not from scratch.