Scanning Around With Gene: The Photographic Moment of Truth
For several years in high school I worked part time at a small pharmacy that sold one of everything and had roots back 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: Big Oil, Big Scenery, Big Ideas
During the most aggressive period of industrialization and westward expansion in America, lots of print material was published by steel companies, railroads, oil producers,…
Scanning Around With Gene: A Bridal Shower for Sophie
I’m on week three of my away-from-home, care-giving journey, so I still have limited access to my usual library of images. But I broke…
Scanning Around with Gene: Giving Until It Hurts (to Bring in the Mail)
I sincerely appreciate the many comments regarding last week’s post about the limited image prospects in a hospital waiting room. I’m still away from…
Scanning Around with Gene: The Waiting is the Hardest Part
I spent most of this past week in the waiting room of the Kaiser San Jose Hospital looking after an injured relative. And because…
Scanning Around with Gene: Makin’ Pages With Bruce
When Bruce Springsteen played the halftime show for the 2009 Super Bowl, it sent me into a bit of a funk. Not because of…
Scanning Around With Gene: When Chemicals Plus Electricity Equaled Beautiful Art
You could certainly argue that the graphic arts industry, even in its present computerized era, uses a lot of toxic and nasty chemicals and…
Scanning Around with Gene: The Only Thing We Have to Fear…
One popular New Year’s resolution is to get organized, which is why retailers often feature lots of storage containers and organizational goods in January…
Scanning Around with Gene: Who’s that Behind those Foster Grants?
I was saving this topic for the summer months, but the president-elect’s recent vacation on Oahu reminded me that in some states, the sun…
Scanning Around with Gene: Merry Christmas 1959
Add a little retro style to your holiday season, with Yuletide greetings from 1959.
Scanning Around with Gene: Electric Blankets and the Cold War
Growing up during the tail end of the Cold War with Communism meant an always-present unease over any number of fears. For some, it…
Scanning Around With Gene: When Knowledge Came from Books
“Ball of Fire” is a terrific 1941 Howard Hawks comedy starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck is an ultra-hip nightclub singer and gangster…