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 ...

A Portland paint company plans to make a splash — and mark a milestone — with a souped-up neon sign: Miller Paint Co. is restored its beaming, iconic windmill along Southeast Grand Avenue to celebrate ...

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 ...

At Borromini, perched on a busy Rittenhouse corner, hand-painted flourishes help situate the trattoria’s pan-Italian menu ...

TULSA, Okla. — When people picture Route 66, they often imagine a warm, colorful glow lighting up the night. But what actually makes a sign “neon”? Inside Encinos Signs, Vice President of Operations ...

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 ...

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Historic Chinatown dive bar Li Po Cocktail Lounge plans to re-illuminate its partially working neon sign, a Chinese lantern that’s beckoned customers through its cavern door for more than 70 years.

Perched on scaffolds in Hong Kong’s dense canyons of buildings, neon signs paint the city in a glow. But these signs—for everything from foot massage parlors to restaurants to diamond merchants—are ...