Scanning Around with Gene: The Joke's on You
Before Hollywood brats got “Punk’d,” and before political opponents hacked each other’s Web sites, the art of the practical joke was a bit simpler….
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: Barbecues, Bar-B-Ques, or BBQs — We Love 'Em All
The New York Times recently ran an article called “Pimp My Grill” about the growing size and cost of barbecues, such as a stainless-steel…
Scanning Around With Gene: When Printers Went to War
Editor’s Note: We recognize that some of you will feel strongly about this article. We encourage you to express yourself in the Vox Box…
Scanning Around with Gene: My Woofer is Bigger than Your Woofer
Aside from my sister and me, the possession my mother has held on to the longest is a massive monaural Packard Bell console record…
Scanning Around With Gene: Listening to Music with Both Ears
I recently splurged and used ten years’ worth of American Express points on a pair of Etymotic headphones for my iPod. If you aren’t…
Scanning Around With Gene: 108 Years of Dust
How an industry dies says a lot about how it lived. Some, like coal mining or steel manufacturing, wreak destruction before we pack them…
Scanning Around With Gene: Everybody Polka!
At last month’s Grammy Awards, a milestone was reached that very few noticed. Jimmy Stur, the current American “Polka King,” was awarded his fifteenth…
Scanning Around With Gene: Gun for the Whole Family
When it comes to liberties, the right to bear arms is, for many Americans, one of the most important, defendable by death if necessary….
Scanning Around with Gene: Scuba-Diver Chic
[Editor’s Note: Today we present the first installment of Gene Gable’s new column, Scanning Around with Gene, which is suspiciously like his old column,…