Bill Concannon
Bill Concannon, often misspelled as Bill Concannom, is a model maker who is specialized in working with neon and creating neon sings, sculptures and special effects for the motion picture industry. As a member of Industrial Light & Magic, he participated in the creation of the  for the  pilot episode  in  and worked on seven of the Star Trek feature films. 

After having taken up an apprenticeship at among others Larry Albright's studio,  Concannon founded his own studio in 1975, Aargon Neon, and one year later he started to work for the motion picture industry. He created neon effects and props for productions such as all six Star Wars films, the Back to the Future trilogy, 1941, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, One from the Heart, Howard the Duck, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Explorers, Basic Instinct, Ghostbusters II, Death Becomes Her, the television series Nash Bridges, Galaxy Quest, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Rent, Pursuit of Happiness, Zodiac, and Milk.

Concannon is also a well known artist and contributed to exhibitions worldwide beside teaching at Pilchuk Glass School, UCLA, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Star Trek credits 
 
  – Model lighting
  – Model lighting
  – Model lighting
  – Model lighting
  – Model lighting
  – Model lighting
  – Model lighting (Borg sphere interior lighting)
  – Model lighting (uncredited)

External links 
 Aargon-Neon.com – official site
 Article at Napanest.Typepad.com
Concannon, Bill