This summer, the Voices will take a look at people with unusual jobs. If you have an idea for us, email voice@spokesman.com. In the 1930s and ’40s, neon lights screamed exciting night life, beckoning ...

Shawna Peterson bends glass tubes for a living. She makes neon art, and has put glowing faces on a giant wall of recyclables for artist Erik Otto, bent two-inch circles for a wall sized circuit board ...

JANESVILLE—For nearly two decades, artist Tyler Kutz has been putting other peoples’ names up in lights. The 35-year-old neon artist and Janesville native said he creates nostalgic and custom designs, ...

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 ...

The shop floor at Pride Neon Sign Company is busy. In one nook, a graphics team is crafting a sign for the new Spoke-N-Sport bike shop in Brookings. At another table, a craftsman is piecing together a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - "It's like trying to hold a wet noodle straight," says Adam Taylor, a glass bender at Oakland's Neon Works. He's been bending neon into shape for seven years, but has only been good at ...

Enter the nondescript Neon Works warehouse in North Oakland, and you’ll find yourself suddenly immersed in rainbow light. It’s as if a time-warping tornado from the 1950s Bay Area wrapped all the neon ...

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