Scanning Around With Gene: The Boys of Summer
I’ve never been much of a team sports fan and don’t really have a favorite genre or game. But I’ve certainly been to more…
Scanning Around with Gene
Gene Gable combs through his extensive personal collection of vintage magazines, trade catalogs, old instruction manuals, product brochures, promotional pamphlets, and advertisements to bring this collection of ephemera and design...
Scanning Around With Gene was a long-running, popular weekly column on CreativePro.com written by designer and collector Gene Gable.
We have also collected a number of these great articles in the book Scanning Around with Gene, Volume 1: The Graphic Arts — a free downloadable for CreativePro members.
Scanning Around With Gene: The Breck Girls
I was at my local Dollar Store the other day stocking up on cheap wrapping paper and picture frames when I happened on the…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Art of Inadequate Gift Giving
I grew up in a house with lots of magazines and liquor. My father was a buyer for a small chain of supermarkets and…
Scanning Around With Gene: When Letraset Was King
I was a freshman in college when I had my first confrontation with dry-transfer type. While every dry-transfer type encounter had a minimal likelihood…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Signs, They Are A Changin'
Saturdays were always taco night in my house growing up. And the best part of taco night was taco morning, when we would pile…
Scanning Around With Gene: Stuff I Miss About Photography
For my thirteenth birthday, my father gave me a “junior darkroom” kit and taught me how to use it. Developing film and making prints…
Scanning Around With Gene: Suntans, Slurpees and a Pink Cadillac
A recent sighting of a 1959 Cadillac Sedan de Ville sent me to the closet in search of Cadillac ads and the lost summer…
Scanning Around With Gene: Is Your Dog Getting Sufficient Eggs?
The place where I shop for dog food is a large feed store where you could, if needed, also buy chow for your llama…
Scanning Around With Gene: Those Darn Cats
I was ready this week to do a column on the typefaces used in the movie Citizen Kane, when a sick cat distracted me…
Scanning Around With Gene: American Type Founders
A very generous and thoughtful reader, Linda Anderson, was kind enough to send me something I’ve coveted for many years: a 1912 catalog from…