A dingbat font isn’t necessarily limited to printer’s ornaments—in fact, most aren’t. They may contain literally any kind of line art, from scribbles to finely crafted fluorishes, drawings ...

According to Bloomberg, more than 700,000 dingbats went up all across LA County during that decade and through the 1960s, and tens of thousands of young families and couples moved in. Grant says ...

A before and after image of a retrofitted Dingbat building. [Photo: courtesy Paul Jesman] Seismic safety rules passed in 2015 now require retrofits of multistory buildings with what the city’s ...

Examples include buildings with names like the Cortez or Casa Bella, a dingbat that was featured in the 1998 film, “The Slums of Beverly Hills.” In fact, these names were the inspiration for ...

Dingbat 2.0, in contrast, places density at its forefront, asking us to take a look backward as we begin to consider the future of a more openly multi-family, vertical megalopolis.

Boxy, dingbat-style apartments dot the San Fernando Valley, the understated architectural design evoking the region’s 1950s post-war boom. But now the Valley’s stock of dingbats is getting a ...

Linda L. Kent Los Angeles * For nearly two decades, L.A. native Lesley Marlene Siegel has been photographing the dingbat. Siegel has taken over 2,000 photographs of dingbats, architecture and signage.