...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Nelson AlgrenTags: chicago urban blood-red cities neon steel wilderness
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.
Janet FitchFor a brief period of time the American electric-sign industry looked beyond its most immediate market and collaborated with store designers and architects in creating a style which became known as 'stream-line.' Later it became known as 'American Déco.' Whatever it was called or will be called in the future, it represents in terms of neon a thrust away from isolated signage toward an area of architectural ornamentation in which signage is but one element in an overall plan. — Rudi Stern
Philip Di LemmeTags: architecture design neon
In their simplicity and directness [neon signage is] a kind of urban iconography with which we can identify on many levels. — Rudi Stern
Philip Di LemmeTags: urban neon iconography
After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
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