The craft of bending glass tubes into neon signs now sits on the UK’s official register of endangered crafts, next to trades ...

Neon signs have been drawing the eye in Hong Kong for more than a century, a familiar sight in the city’s nightscape advertising everything from pharmacies and seafood restaurants to topless bars and ...

Major exhibition will reveal how neon went from the staple of brash advertising to an art form Across two galleries in Wakefield sit more than half a dozen tubes of light at least two metres tall, ...

Since the 1920s, the cities of the world have been given light and life at night by the flickering, almost phantasmagoric lettering of neon signs. As efficient LEDs replace glowing tubes full of neon ...

Hong Kong neon master Wong Kin-wah holds a glass tube over a burner’s flame, bending it and occasionally blowing into it with the finesse that comes from decades of honing his craft. Speed and ...

We typically think of neon signs as big commercial advertisements, hanging inside windows and lofted on tall signposts outside highway-adjacent businesses. [James Akers] has gone the other route with ...

Jeff Friedman was expecting a delivery on a Monday morning in August when a man sauntered into his Tribeca showroom holding three delicate glass tubes bent in the shape of letters. Friedman asked for ...