Scanning Around With Gene: Marge Gable, School Nurse
[Editor’s note: In the previous installment of this column, Gene shared memorabilia from a shoebox he discovered when he made a recent—and final—visit to…
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: A Shoebox Full of Mom
My mother wasn’t exactly the sentimental type. So when it came time to go through her papers, I knew I would find plenty of…
Scanning Around With Gene: Leather and Letters from Al Stohlman
My father was such a boy scout. I’m sure he had a lot of merit badges, and when it came to craftiness and resourcefulness,…
Scanning Around With Gene: Danger Around Every Corner
The first bicycle I chose for myself was a Schwinn Varsity ten-speed model in a color called “campus green.” I paid for it in…
Scanning Around With Gene: Your Name Here
I was christened a junior, although fortunately never called one. I sometimes wonder what it says about a man when he names his son…
Scanning Around With Gene: Plane Spotting
I always wanted to be the kid in the back of the classroom who drew airplanes and tanks and soldiers instead of listening to…
Scanning Around With Gene: How to Achieve Happiness
I’ve always admired happy people. My natural tendency is toward the depressed, and it’s easy for me to see things as troubling, if not…
Scanning Around With Gene: A Cornucopia of Corny Clip Art Cuts
Regular readers of this column know I’m a sucker for corny clip art, especially if it began life as a metal printer’s cut. I…
Scanning Around With Gene: Growing Up Beige
When I grew up, our house was anything but colorful. Everything that could be painted was painted beige. Furniture was either beige or white,…
Scanning Around with Gene: Seeing Pictures With Both Eyes
When I die and go to my Heaven, it’s going to look like a store in Berkeley, California, called Urban Ore, a three-acre complex…
Scanning Around With Gene: My Mother’s Appliances
I recently lost my mother at the age of 90. She had a long and healthy life and died very much on her own…
Scanning Around With Gene: Blog-O-Matic
I’ve always been a sucker for mid-century vintage modern, that period from about 1945 to 1965 when convenience trumped many other considerations and design…