About Mercer Sign Consultants

Mercer Sign Consultants has been privileged to serve clients since 1998, backed-up by over 35 years of experience in the on-premise sign industry. Mercer has collaborated with architects, designers, planners and local governments to help achieve positive results for all stakeholders

On-premise signs perform a vital communicative function in our society, and the goal of Mercer Sign Consultants to help clients design and install signage that is creative, effective and appropriate to the built-environment.  Whether you are a sign owner, municipality, or planning firm, we would be glad to serve you in any way.

PROJECTS DESIGNED BY RICHARD CRAWFORD

Richard B. Crawford is owner of Mercer Sign Consultants, and  is an attorney who provides expert testimony, sign design and zoning consulting services related to on-premise signs. Clients include both municipalities and end users.

He also serves on the Board of the United States Sign Council Foundation (USSC Foundation or USSCF), a national non profit research organization, and has helped direct over fourteen (18) studies related to on-premise signs and traffic safety.  He was a member of the International Code Council’s (ICC) International Zoning & Property Maintenance Committee from 2003 to 2011, and was a member of the ICC International Energy Conservation/Existing Building/Property Maintenance/Zoning Interpretation Committee from 2008 to 2011. His areas of expertise include: sign design, sign construction, sign legibility, traffic safety, and current research on on-premise signs, as well as national on premise sign standards.  He recently completed the USSCF's On-Premise Sign Lighting Standards, and he co-authored the USSCF’s most recent Model On-Premise Sign Code, and has lectured frequently on matters related to signage, including sessions before the American Planning Association (APA) and the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD). CV available upon request. He is also the co-author of the most recent edition of the APA publication Street Graphics and the Law (2015).

You can reach Mr. Crawford directly at rcrawford@mercersignconsultants.com or
rcmercer@verizon.net

Examples of who we have served

Types of matters

Representative list of clients:
Workspace Property Trust, Horsham PA
Holiday Inn Express, Moab UT
Mt. Airy Casino Resort, MT Pocono PA
Upper Merion Township, King of Prussia PA
City of Santa Clarita, CA
United States Sign Council, Bristol PA
National Realty & Development Corp, Purchase NY
National Penn Bank, Boyertown PA
Barlo Signs, Hudson NH
Mandeville Signs, Lincoln RI
DeMond Signs, O'Fallon IL
AT&T Wireless

Assisting a Client in obtaining a sign variance

Assisting a town in defending its local sign code from challenge

Providing a basis to support a town's Off-Premise (billboard) sign area allowance

Working with a client to obtain approval for an Electronic sign

Working with a local town in drafting a Sign Code revision