Scanning Around with Gene: Drink Up to Summer!
Memorial Day is here and so it’s time to think summer and the usual activities that go with it. According to the Automobile Club,…
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: Certifiable
Someone recently sent me a link to a Web site that produces “novelty” diplomas, college transcripts, birth certificates and other official-looking documents. In this…
Scanning Around with Gene: Jules Verne Meets Terry Gilliam
I realize the readers of CreativePro.com are hip and on top of current design trends, so I may be coming to this topic embarrassingly…
Scanning Around With Gene: Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun
The announcement last week that the Wrigley Company would merge with candy-maker Mars in a deal worth $23 billion took me by surprise. Not…
Scanning Around with Gene: The Islands and Bridges of Stencils
Anyone who has redecorated a child’s room or has a fondness for blue-and-white country décor has probably used stencils to add a border just…
Scanning Around with Gene: When Families Licked Together
During the 1960s and ’70s, if you asked most people what publication had the largest circulation in the United States, they would probably have…
Scanning Around With Gene: Old News is Good News
There are a lot of perks to being a highly paid blogger here at CreativePro. There’s the free 802.11N wireless on the corporate Gulfstream…
Scanning Around With Gene: Front-of-the Napkin Wisdom
There’s a great new book by Dan Roam called The Back of the Napkin – Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures. As you…
Scanning Around With Gene: How to Look Presidential
Regardless of your political leanings, you have to admit this will be a very interesting year in the history of the United States and…
Scanning Around With Gene: And a Trophy for the Winner!
About five years ago I left the scene of a local jewelry store’s going-out-of-business sale with several large boxes of trophy parts. There were…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Apple Brand You May Not Recognize
Last week I was interviewed on Inside Mac Radio and asked to comment on Apple being named the “Most Admired Brand in America” by…
Scanning Around With Gene: Dymo-Mite! The Art of Labeling
I’m on a new (and what I hope will be final) kick in a lifetime of efforts to be more organized and a better…