Scanning Around With Gene: When Food Comes to Life
I’ve always loved anthropomorphism: the attributing of human characteristics to non-human things. And though this week’s installment is only a small glimpse at the…
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: If Only You Weren't So Offensive
Even though we seem to have come to a point where little is sacred, in some areas we’ve actually turned the “frankness level” down…
Scanning Around with Gene: Add Inches to Your Manhood!
Whenever I get a compliment about any sort of achievement, I often reply that I was “lucky to be born a tall, white male.”…
Scanning Around with Gene: Holy Word Balloons, Batman!
I was trying to figure out why so many ads I see in magazines from the 1930s through the 1950s feature multiple panels depicting…
Scanning Around With Gene: Keep on Truckin’
I had to drive to Los Angeles last week to deliver some bad news of the sort best done in person, and I wanted…
Scanning Around With Gene: Clicking at the Green Duck
Of all the companies that have produced metal buttons and other novelty devices, few have equaled the contributions of the Green Duck Metal Stamping…
Scanning Around With Gene: Monkeys and Skunks in Your Mailbox
When I was a kid, we would walk downtown on Saturdays to Woolworths. I’d always make my way to a small corner in the…
Scanning Around with Gene: Paste-up Limericks
I’ve written many times about old-school paste-up techniques and I always get a flurry of requests for more of the same. But since I’m…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Signpost Up Ahead
I like things that change slowly and aren’t as subject to fashion as most graphic and visual arts. Traffic and road signs are one…
Scanning Around With Gene: Winning Album Covers from You!
When I invited you readers to send me your favorite album cover designs, I wasn’t sure what to expect. For one thing, I neglected…
Scanning Around with Gene: A Bouquet of Album Covers, Part II
I was heartened to receive a lot of responses to last week’s column on album art. It’s clear that many of us link our…
Scanning Around With Gene: A Bouquet of Album Covers, Part I
For many years — decades, in fact — I have had a thing about holding onto books, videos, or record albums. It’s as if…