Scanning Around with Gene: Happy Birthday, Peace Symbol!
It was fifty years ago this month that the peace symbol first appeared, a design conceived by British graphic artist Gerald Holtom as a…
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: Pay Up, or Else!
I’m at an age in life where my finances should be totally secure, but like many Americans I still sometimes find myself short of…
Scanning Around With Gene: Five Years on a Flatbed
When I discovered that today marks my five-year anniversary writing a column here at CreativePro.com, I immediately fell into a dark funk. I generally…
Scanning Around With Gene: Oh Yeah? Then Show Me Your Badge.
Aside from the cheap disposal variety handed out at trade shows and conferences, I’ve never had a job that required a badge to prove…
Scanning Around With Gene: One Ringy-Dingy, Two Ringy-Dingies
In the annals of great American institutions, American Telephone and Telegraph, which was the parent corporation of the Bell Telephone Companies, has got to…
Scanning Around With Gene: Part 2 of That '70s Type!
Part 1 of That ’70s Type! Setting type is like re-decorating your home: you know exactly what you want and you think you know…
Scanning Around With Gene: Part 1 of That '70s Type!
Go to Part 2 of That ’70s Type! I’ve never qualified as a “typophile,” or any other –phile for that matter. For one thing,…
Scanning Around with Gene: When Sparks Fly
I suspect every American kid, especially every boy, has vivid memories of Fourth of July fireworks and can, at the mere mention of sparklers,…
Scanning Around With Gene: Profile of An Early Clip Art Character
The term “clip art” has become a generic description of any art, illustration, photograph, or other visual material that is sold as copyright- or…
Scanning Around With Gene: Hamming it Up this Easter Dinner
A collection of vintage Easter graphics accompanied by reflections on the traditional holiday meal.
Scanning Around with Gene: When I Grow Up to Be a Man
When I was growing up in Southern California, I knew at a pretty early age what it meant to be an adult. Each day…
Scanning Around with Gene: Getting That New Bike Down the Chimney
Vintage images and memories from when a shiny new bike was the ultimate Christmas gift for kids.