I love this book. I received it as a gift a few years ago, and still pick it up and thumb through it every once in a while. Like the title says, there are pictures of 1000 signs in it from all over the world. At first, I thought that it was a great example of how cultures around the world are different in the ways that they communicate. After reviewing the book though, I find it to be almost the opposite. I think that it shows how much we all have in common based on our needs to live in organized societies.

Neon's not what it used to be. Lucky for us Len Davidson has compiled this great collection of over 350 photos of neon signs from the 30's and 40's. Len is also the founder of the Philadelphia Neon Museum, which is basically his own collection of vintages neon signs, that he loans out to bars and restaurants in the Philadelphia area. This is the most comprehensive book I've seen yet on vintage neon, by a guy who truly loves it, and has made the restoration of neon's heritage his passion.

Pippo Lioni is the co-founder of Ldesign of Paris. He has won countless awards for design internationally, and has continuing loyalty to the future and dev elopement of design education. Facts of Life has no text except the very short introduction. The whole book is very conceptually based on the universal symbols for man and woman that we see everyday in public signage. By pulling these symbols out of context, he has transformed them from pictograms into ideograms.