Scanning Around With Gene: The Faces of Coal Mining in America
The recent disaster at the Big Branch mine reminded me just how out of touch I’ve become with anything that might be considered industrial….
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: How Many Markers Were On Your Taboret?
For those poor young people who grew up entirely in the digital art era, I should probably explain that a taboret is a small…
Scanning Around With Gene: Drawing with Walter T. Foster
I grew up in Southern California. Each time we drove to the beach or Disneyland, we’d pass a building off to the side of…
Scanning Around With Gene: Staples of the Twentieth-Century Office
Thanks to a new day job that involves a lot more traditional office work, a friend recently gave me a red Swingline Model 747…
Scanning Around With Gene: A Picture Print from Currier & Ives
I used to associate the American printer Currier & Ives mostly with Christmas. Those prints, which I disliked, seem Normal Rockwell-like in their ability…
Scanning Around With Gene: Birds of a Feather
The world seems to be divided into two types of people: those who like pet birds and those who find them creepy, sad, or…
Scanning Around With Gene: Maintaining Your Car and Your Home
The latest service woes of Toyota made me oddly nostalgic for the days when it was assumed that most cars would be in the…
Scanning Around with Gene: Take A Vacation in Paradise
When I was in fourth grade, each student was assigned one of the 50 states. During the year we were to gather materials and…
Scanning Around With Gene: All the Mens’ Presidents
When I was a kid there was no “Presidents’ Day.” We celebrated two presidential birthdays in February: Lincoln’s birthday on the 12th and Washington’s…
Scanning Around With Gene: Visiting Sunny Southern California
During a recent visit to southern California where I grew up, I uncovered a small trove of local tourist information from the early 1960s…
Scanning Around With Gene: What’s In Your Refrigerator?
My father use to yell at us kids for wasting energy when we’d stand in front of the refrigerator with the door open, trying…
Scanning Around With Gene: Getting Things Done in 1961
I haven’t seen the TV series “Mad Men” yet, but several people have recommended it to me, mostly because of its authenticity in depicting…