Let’s face it, neon signs are America. Be it a Coors Light sign in a college dorm room or a strip club marquee that jumps at you from the side of the road, neon serves as a beacon of light that calls ...
Shawna Peterson bends glass tubes for a living. She makes neon art, and has put glowing faces on a giant wall of recyclables for artist Erik Otto, bent two-inch circles for a wall sized circuit board ...
Neal Conner, Neon Man, has nearly 40 years of expertise in crafting neon signs. Here's how that special medium drives his ...
Neo-Neon, a producer of LED-based lighting solutions, has introduced a product that replaces traditional glass neon with LED technology. Glass neon, which is largely used for signage and as a ...
“I don’t think people realize that these aren’t being mass produced,” says Katie Pickens about neon signs during her visit to Brooklyn Glass — a Brooklyn-based glass blowing factory that specializes ...
RIDGEFIELD — In 1988, Roger Schurman sold his first neon sign to a used-car dealer on Portland’s Lombard Street at the tail end of a day full of rejection. That first sign — it said “OPEN” — was only ...
Ever wanted to make your own neon sign but didn't know where to start? It can seem tricky at first, but making a neon sign isn't as hard as you might think. After doing some research, I found an easy ...
Like driving toward the Las Vegas strip, you can see Glas studio in Raleigh coming from a ways away. The neon-colored signs are within sight well before you enter the studio. Other WRAL Top Stories It ...
Editor's note: This post combines a two-post series originally published on the National Museum of American History's "O Say Can You See?" blog and is republished here with permission. Part of the fun ...
With their mesmerizing glow, neon signs once dotted the American roadside, beckoning travelers to stop and eat at the coolest diners across the U.S. Neon signs meant everything to hungry road warriors ...