Scanning Around With Gene: A Thanksgiving Day Parade of Images
Take a walk through the history of Thanksgiving with this large collection of vintage photos and artwork.
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 Normal Day in Dallas Turns Tragic
I’m sure for those who weren’t born when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, hearing about that day seems no more vivid or emotional…
Scanning Around With Gene: Oodles and Oodles of White-House Poodles
I’m ecstatic on a number of levels about the First Family Elect, not the least of which is the promise of a new first-puppy…
Scanning Around With Gene: Lasting Love
This column usually focuses on printed pieces that were designed to be public: advertisements, magazine spreads, letterhead, decals, and so on. In this installment,…
Scanning Around With Gene: Vote Like Your Life Depends on It!
I was lucky to benefit almost immediately from the passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution in 1970, which lowered the legal voting…
Scanning Around with Gene: And Leave the Driving to Us!
I’ve never hopped a freight train or even hitchhiked across America. But I have ridden on a Greyhound bus, and I can say without…
Scanning Around With Gene: Kitchen-Table Wisdom
One of the clichés of this election cycle is the image of middle-class Americans sitting around the kitchen table having heavy discussions about our…
Scanning Around With Gene: Our Love/Hate Relationship with the Atom
Most adults above the age of about 45 probably remember having atom-bomb drills at school and being taught that the best chance of survival…
Scanning Around With Gene: In Debates, the Tie Makes the Man
The first televised presidential debates, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, were broadcast in black and white. So even though 70…
Scanning Around With Gene: Occasional Oddball Image Roundup
Each week when I go through my piles of printed ephemera looking for images on specific themes, I always end up flagging a few…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Dead Letterhead Department
Like many baby boomers, I didn’t plan as well as I should have for my future back when it was still a future, so…
Scanning Around With Gene: Conventional Badges of Honor
Thanks to the recent political-party gatherings in Denver and St. Paul, both politics and conventions are on my mind. I’ve learned not to comment…