These units are known as “dingbat”-style apartments — and that’s not a slight, that’s what they’re called apparently because of the midcentury-esque visual motifs on their exterior. Many even have a ...

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There are buildings scattered across Southern California that could pancake at any minute. At the same time, there is a deep shortage of housing in the region. One developer has carved out a unique ...

Hermann Zapf, the German font designer who died Sunday, believed his famous Zapf Dingbats font should be used sparingly. Though Zapf Dingbats, which broke big when Apple integrated it into 1986’s ...

Paul Sellers, creator of the Dingbats puzzle phenomenon, has died aged 89. Dingbats has been one of the most popular items in The Mail on Sunday's puzzle pages since the paper's launch in 1982. Mr ...

When Los Angeles County added more than 3 million residents between the 1940s and ‘60s, small developers and mom-and-pop property owners built dingbats to keep up with the demand. The two- or ...

The iconic musician and artist has published a book of his drawings and verse, alongside his musings on typographic nuances Earlier this month, former Talking Heads front man and pioneer of oversized ...

As we emerge from a cataclysmic global pandemic and confront ongoing and mounting social and political woes around the world, levity is in short supply. Let’s turn to the inimitable, irreverent wit ...

As America spirals further away from utopia amid a deadly global pandemic, heightened awareness of racial and social injustice, and a deepening divide among dueling duopolists, David Byrne took his ...