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The Ivar Theatre project, funded by the Community Redevelopment Agency, in collaboration with the

architectural firm Tierra Sol y Mar took one year to complete. When designing a new look for the theaters

flat front I decided to place six column light boxes across the front above the marquee. The boxes are

each 30”x19’ aluminum frame covered with blue acrylic lighted inside with blue neon. The marquee is topped with a single line of emerald green neon. The four center columns each support one letter of the

IVAR sign. Each stainless steel letter is lighted with ruby red neon. Two windows are framed with pink neon

covered with white lexan. At the far right of the facade a blade sign was again made with stainless steel

letters lighted with ruby red neon. Luckily only the letter “R” had to be revered to read IVAR from both sides.

This residential project was for the game room of a popular actor. The interior design firm asked me to

design neon to cover the ceiling. My idea of using circles came from gaming arcades which often involve

balls and other round objects. I used various sized circles to create visual movement. Each exposed neon

circle was mounted on an aluminum sheet cut one inch larger. On the back side of the aluminum circle I

mounted another circle of neon in the opposite color. So if the exposed neon was red the back side would

be blue. Then the blue neon reflecting on the ceiling would mix with red at the front creating a circle of

magenta. At the far end of the room I used twelve straight lines of neon to create a star burst of red, blue,

yellow, green and magenta.