Reddy Kilowatt is drawn as a stick figure whose body and limbs are made of "lightning-bolt" symbols and whose bulbous head has a light bulb for a nose and wall outlets for ears. Reddy was created at ...

Distilled to their simplest use, signs speak to us. But historic signs — from a faded 1930s “ghost sign” painted on the side of a building to a 1950s neon ad — need others to speak for them. Des ...

DENVER — VFW Post 1, in Denver, was the first Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in the country. That's part of the reason why some of its oldest members revere the post's nostalgic neon sign as a piece of ...

A well-designed space should tell a story, and unique accents are a great way to ensure it does. For those with a creative and bold style, experiment with neon lights — whether it's with a sleek, ...

Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...

SAGINAW, MI --It's a good thing H.C. Dall didn't list the particulars of his work as a "chiropodist" on the glass-plated sign that hung over his shop 84 years ago. If the Saginaw foot doctor who ...

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Mountain Miami is here—and it’s not going away. Really. The new multicolored sculpture, installed earlier this month in Miami Beach’s Collins Park and unveiled formally to the public with a small fete ...

The historic ’50s-style Bel Aire Shopping Center sign at Staples and Annapolis has been unceremoniously painted over, ...

Manhattan got a healthy dose of color and ’90s nostalgia on Saturday night, thanks to Sergio Hudson’s fall 2023 fashion show. Hudson, a Black designer from South Carolina, established his popular ...