Scanning Around With Gene: Getting into the Swim of Things
My mother was what I like to call a safety Nazi, and of all the calamities that could befall small children, drowning was 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.
Christmas Classics from Scanning Around With Gene
Want a little last minute shot of Christmas cheer? Check out these awesome holiday season posts from the legendary Scanning Around With Gene series:…
Scanning Around With Gene: A Final Farewell
Since I announced my retirement from Scanning Around With Gene last week, the kind and thoughtful comments from readers have overwhelmed me and I…
Scanning Around With Gene: The End of a Personal Journey
Next week marks the tenth anniversary of my column here at CreativePro, and I’ve decided to make that edition my last installment of Scanning…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Printing Press as Art
As someone who’s owned and operated a couple of different printing presses in my time, I can attest to the fact that there is…
Scanning Around With Gene: My Dad and the Super Market
I was recently looking through some old boxes of memorabilia from my dad and came across a bunch of company newsletters from when he…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Art of Scripophily
I recently came across a terrific book on eBay called The Art of the Market: Two Centuries of American Business as Seen Through Its…
Scanning Around With Gene: Year End Grab Bag
I generally consider 12 images to be the minimum necessary to constitute a weekly “theme” here at Scanning Around With Gene, though I will…
Scanning Around With Gene: Men’s Pulp Magazines
I was waiting in line at the checkout counter of the local supermarket the other day and couldn’t help but notice the latest issue…
Scanning Around With Gene: Make Big Money, Study at Home!
My nephew Luc has been having trouble figuring out exactly what he wants to do for a career, and recently signed up for a…
Scanning Around With Gene: Christmas With Puck Magazine
In the early days of periodical printing in the Unites States, humor magazines were much more common than they are today, though “humor” in…
Scanning Around With Gene: Horror and Exploitation!
When I lived in Southern California, I took a lot of filmmaking classes in college, and became a bit obsessed with film history and…