A unique idea for decorating your school's bleachers outside or in the gym is to add school and team graphics highlighting your school colors, logo, or mascot. Turn your plain brown or gray bleachers into a powerful branding platform with SportsGraphics' bleacher step graphics! 

Many schools have found that branding their facility helps boost their program's image, school spirit, recruiting, team pride, and community engagement. Whether you are covering your bleachers in team colors or touting your school's mascot or logo, bleacher step graphics can help you take your school branding to the next level.

Here are some ideas for applying graphics to your bleacher steps.

Stair Graphics Maximize Your School Branding 

For your school branding to be truly effective, your school must live and breathe it in every way possible. By leaving your stairs blank, you're wasting space that you could use to remind students of their allegiances or intimidate rival teams. 

Why wouldn't you be using step graphics? Skimping on your school branding is no way to make it effective; you have to drench your school in its colors and mascot.

Cover Your Bleacher Steps in School Colors

Plain colors can have a powerful effect on a gym design. Try alternating your colors every other step. If you have bleachers on both sides of your gym, then cover one side with a darker color and the other with a contrasting lighter color.

You can also alternate the bleacher aisles to create a cool 'checkerboard' effect. Regardless of how you design your bleachers, solid colors create a bold statement that energizes the crowd.

Embrace Enlarged Lettering

Adorn the bleacher steps with big, bold letters that spell out the name of your school, city, or mascot. You have endless options for decorating your steps, including solid colors or multi-colors. 

Spell out the name of your entire school or spread out the initials. You can add graphics to your current colors or embed them to create a complete design and highlight core values. 

Display Your School's Logo or Mascot

Your school's mascot embodies what your school is all about. The mascot is the recognizable symbol that brings crowds together for every game. Why not display the mascot on the steps of your school's bleachers? 

You can add the mascot interchangeably with your school's logos or lettering. It is the perfect accent to any design you already have in mind. Of course, this is all provided that you're satisfied with your mascot design in the first place. 

If you think that concept could be overhauled, learn about the finer details of perfecting this critical part of your school brand.

Promote Your School's Social Media Handles

Want to get your school's student body and fans talking about your teams? We can print your school's Facebook page name and Twitter and Instagram handles onto the step graphics so spectators can easily engage on social media, even during an event.

Working on social media is a great way to build your school brand, provided you use it correctly. However, promoting healthy social media use in your school also has far-reaching effects on your students' futures.

Add Graphics to All School Steps

Since you are adding step graphics, consider how they will look across your entire campus. Identify the main entrance or hall areas where students and visitors typically access your gym. Our gymnasium step graphics are perfect for any interior steps in a school!

Accent the Colored Seats

If your gym has colored seats, adding a colored inlay on the steps will give the bleachers some depth and heighten the impact of the entire design. Instead of settling for a drab bleacher surface, take advantage of the dead space with an affordable solution.

SportsGraphics can create bleacher graphics that span the whole step, top to bottom and side to side. We can also add any color that matches the bleacher seats' color. 

Bleacher Enclosures Complete the School Branding Picture

Step graphics are a fantastic way to spruce up your gymnasium—solely for assemblies or the spearhead space of your athletic program. But they're not the only way to gussy up the place, nor should they be the sole school branding upgrade you consider. 

According to Entrepreneur, a business-based journalism franchise, "the only way to build your reputation from scratch is to make your brand as visible as possible." 

While this article pertains more to companies than schools, the concept still is pertinent—if your brand isn't being seen frequently, whatever that may mean, then you cannot expect it to take hold and succeed.

Stair graphics are an excellent start for rebranding your school but are only part of the picture. Bleacher curtains, championship banners, gym pads, and more can all accentuate the vibe your stair graphics are going for, bringing the branding effect full circle and creating an athletic space where your students will thrive. Branding is great for that!

SportsGraphics: For All Your School Branding Needs

SportsGraphics offers all types of decor for your educational facility. From bleacher safety curtains, banners, and mats to wall, window, and step graphics, we have everything you need to complete your school's design.

To find out more about our products or to place an order, call our Clarion office now at 1-800-257-6405, or you can send a message on our contact page.