The Zeon Files

Mark C. Childs is an associate dean and a professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, USA. He is the author of Urban Composition: Developing Community through Design, Squares: A Public Place Design Guide for Urbanists, and Parking Spaces: A Design, Implementation, and Use Manual for Architects, Planners, and Engineers. He is a Fulbright Scholar and has won awards for community engagement, teaching, public art, heritage preservation, and poetry. Ellen D. Babcock is an assistant professor of sculpture at the University of New Mexico, USA. She has exhibited at numerous New Mexico and California venues, including the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and the Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco. She founded Friends of the Orphan Signs (FOS), an organization that sites collaboratively produced public art in abandoned signage.

For the artist, design buff, or Route 66-kicker on your list, it's a must have.--American Road