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 ...

A month after a fire ripped through portions of the Ignite Sign Art Museum, the beloved history museum asking the public for ...

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 ...

Reporting from Havana — As the sun sinks over Old Havana, a row of ramshackle apartment buildings fades from sherbet bright to creamy hues of pale pink, yellow and green. Storm clouds hover above the ...

Before it was torn down in 1977, downtown's Victory Theater had two twin marquee signs. One just got new life at a popular ...

Angeleno artists Patrick Martinez, Gabriela Ruiz and Freddy Villalobos turned to both the city's streets and its past to inspire their works included in Hammer's newest Made in L.A. exhibition.

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 ...

Route 66 is lined with state and national parks where visitors can see petroglyphs, canyons, lakes, historic sites, and desert vistas.

After nine years of enthusiastically seeking out hundreds of San Francisco’s forgotten signs on busy streets and in narrow alleys, Kasey Smith was unsure about what to do next with her ...

You probably don't know his name, but the work of Shawn Gilheeney is all around you in Rhode Island, summoning you into restaurants. He is an artist and the creative force behind many business signs, ...