Bamboo table by Bogan Neon

California-based artist Darren Pearson, also known as Darius Twin, creates light sculptures in the air using LED lights and long exposure photography.

His light art includes skeletal figures of people, angels, dinosaurs and other animals. Each of Pearson’s light sculptures take two to five minutes to create.
According to his site, he works as a full-time illustrator by day while he scouts California for the perfect setting to create his complex light effect photographs or light paintings.
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150 Boise Icons: Beautiful neon

What's your favorite piece of Boise neon?
The sign at the Torch Lounge casts a fiery glow onto Main Street. The nose-to-nose dragons at the Twin Dragon nearby have lured diners since the early 1960s. The Chinese characters spell the name of the restaurant in light.
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Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/04/27/2553619/beautiful-neon.html#storylink=cpy

The neon signs shining a light on cold-war Poland

The grey buildings of cold-war Poland were adorned with incongruously bright neon signs. The designs illuminate a moment lost in time

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In pictures: Poland's neon signs

Meet A Modern-Day Master Of The Classic Neon Sign

Todd Sanders uses time-tested methods (and no computers) to hand-build his custom neon art.
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Tracey Emin Is Bringing Her Tragic Neon Love Messages to MOCA North Miami During This Year's Art Basel

We love Tracey Emin. We were excited to hear about her stint in Times Square and now we're even more hyped to hear that she will be landing her first show at an American museum. Coming in December, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami will be presenting “Tracey Emin: Angel Without You." Many of her signature neon signs will be on display, showing her growth throughout her career. The show will also be kicking off the next installment of Art Basel Miami Beach.
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The lit-up and magnetized world of words

“You end up making a lot of words in the world of neon,” Krypton Neon Studio co-founder and artist Kenny Greenberg said as he sifted through a pile of discarded words in his Long Island City shop. Twisted white tubes that turn a spectrum of bright colors when plugged in lay on the concrete ground — “smile,” “come,” “the,” “a” and “extraordinary.”
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Richard Hooker discusses art, the Neon Museum and his new gallery in Downtown Las Vegas

For more than a decade, Richard Hooker has been the man behind culture in Las Vegas, working with the Neon Museum and the Vegas Valley Book Festival and as a liaison between the city and the Arts District. Prior to that, he worked for the Nevada Arts Council.
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New Zealand exhibition in Venice lights up the town

 Bill Culbert, Front Door Out Back
New Zealand Pavilion
Santa Maria della Pieta
Until November 24
 http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/new-zealand-exhibition-venice-lights-town-140907

Vintage neon is art at Vegas museum

FOR THE LOVE OF POP CULTURE

Eliza Wiley Independent Record - Willem Volkersz’ installation ‘Short Stories,’ which includes suitcases painted and adorned with figurines and neon, was inspired by early road trips taken by Volkersz in his 1939 Plymouth exploring the West. Volkersz will give a gallery talk today at 5 p.m. at Turman Larison Contemporary gallery, with a reception at 6 p.m.

A white neon bunny outline sporting a bowtie

http://austin.culturemap.com/news/style/06-19-13-playboy-neon-bunny-marfa-texas/

From Futura Standard to Helvetica Neue, designer Aleksi Hautamaki refits vintage neon letters

http://beautifuldecay.com/2013/06/19/lonesome-neon-typography-searches-for-new-context/

Why Neon Is Suddenly Everywhere in Pop Culture

Neon. Suddenly it’s everywhere in pop culture, in movies, TV, and music. This is most obvious in movie trailers, where neon has become almost standard.

 So why all the neon now? The most obvious influence, as we noted in reference to those Girls titles, is designer Tom Kan’s assaultive, unforgettable opening title sequence for Enter the Void (2009). Many though not all of these title sequences—including in Girls, the “All of the Lights” video, and the trailer for Only God Forgives—are paying clear homage to Enter the Void, making their neon signs blink and strobe, often in different languages and typefaces, just like in that film. Spring Breakers has another, more direct connection to Enter the Void: To achieve its distinctive look, director Harmony Korine hired Enter the Void’s cinematographer, Benoît Debie.



http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/04/05/why_neon_inspired_design_is_suddenly_everywhere_in_pop_culture_from_only.html

Heaven & Hell In Neon: Chris Bracey @ Scream

 

Chris Bracey, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. Image courtesy Scream London.

The space between the stars was a successful and highly popular group show, so it’s no surprise that one of the featured artists is getting his own solo show at Scream London.
Chris Bracey works in eye-catching neon to create bold works filled with energy. Neon is not a new medium for Bracey or his family — his father created lights for carnivals and amusement parks. The artist himself started off creating signs for Soho bars, clubs and tattoo parlours before moving into set design in the film industry. This transition opened up a natural move into commercial art, which has proven to be a successful segue.
This latest exhibition has a religious slant to it but is also autobiographical, charting his rise from humble beginnings of designing signs to becoming a fully fledged commercial artist. The mix of religious iconography and neon should make for some powerful imagery and radical contrasts.
There’s no doubt that his work will divide people between those who find it garish and over the top, to those who revel in the infectious energy. But we’re looking forward to his latest works and once open it’ll be hard to walk past the gallery without being drawn in by the alluring lights.