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 ...

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 ...

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.

For decades, the iconic neon sign outside Katz’s Delicatessen on the Lower East Side has been drawing in hungry, late-night partiers like moths to a pastrami-sandwich flame. It is one of the few ...

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 ...