With square, uninspired interior floor plans ... Dingbats, a term that printers use to refer to decorative marks that appear in text, became a fitting name for the ornamented buildings.

The dingbat is a “really interesting architectural type that can be looked at in a lot of different ways,” said Thurman Grant, co-editor with Joshua G. Stein of Dingbat 2.0.

Last summer, Dingbat signed a lease on its first home, a storefront space at 7288 S. Tamiami Trail where it opened in December with the musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ...

Dingbats have become a quintessential vernacular architecture of L.A., but they also a known risk during big earthquakes. After the 1994 Northridge earthquake that struck outside of L.A., ...

Dingbat Theatre Project stages rarely seen ‘Superman’ musical in comic book style Jay Handelman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Sun, January 14, 2024 at 9:01 AM UTC ...

Finally, an academic treatise on the dingbat apartment! Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis gathered a dream team of more than a dozen architects, critics ...

Los Angeles’ “dingbat” apartments are a kitschy piece of the past. Shaped by the car culture, dingbats are going obsolete due to earthquake risk.

Dingbat Theatre Project will present Dingbat's Peter Pan, a new theatrical adaptation of the J.M. Barrie novel. The production, which is great for all ages, will play indoors at The Loveland ...

In 49 states, a dingbat is an elementary school insult, but in California and especially LA, the term refers to a residential building with a very distinct style. These edifices are typically painted ...

Dingbat has operated on a semi-professional model, working on a profit-sharing basis with cast members “because we can’t afford to pay them until we can get our footing and increase that. ...