Atlanta Magazine

Atlanta’s The Neon Company, one of few surviving fabricators of neon signs in the U.S., is still going strong

If you’ve ever looked at a flickering neon sign and thought, I bet I could make one of those, be advised: You almost certainly could not. At once a science and an art, neon demands an artisan’s ...
Curbed

The Slow Death of Neon

“Rainbow Room” faces possible doom. Photo: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis/Getty Images “Rainbow Room” faces possible doom. Photo: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis/Getty Images Editor’s note: On December 17, after ...
CNN

This artist is keeping Hong Kong’s neon heritage alive

The neon signs that once illuminated Hong Kong have mostly gone dark. The lights were once synonymous with the city, but in recent years, the government has tightened regulations over safety concerns ...
The Guardian

Warsaw’s Neon Museum sparks revival of interest in cold war signs and aesthetic

After fall of communism, signs were left to rust until museum founders began to collect and restore them As they struggled through the decades of cold war gloom and repression, Warsaw’s neon signs ...
The New York Times

Where Did All the Hong Kong Neon Go?

A government crackdown on neon signs stems from safety and environmental concerns, but the campaign evokes the fading of the city itself. A neon sign outside a mahjong parlor in October in Hong ...