Scanning Around With Gene: Groovy Macramé
I spent my coming-of-age years in the Seventies, so my memories of that time are bittersweet, especially in retrospect. But of all the decades…
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 Pre-Computer Lesson in Anatomy
I went to a new dentist the other day and was blown away by the technology they had in the office. My old dentist…
Scanning Around With Gene: Even More Election Propaganda
I’m perhaps a bit late with this topic, seeing how the recent elections are finally over, but I thought it might be fun to…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Death of Free Calendars and Local Drug Stores
Two developments this week lead me to today’s topic. First, I began my search for my main 2013 calendar – I like to get…
Scanning Around With Gene: Extravaganzas on Ice
When I was growing up there seemed to be an ice skating rink in almost every town, and this was in sunny California where…
Scanning Around With Gene: Just Another Roadside Attraction
Despite growing up with a small speed boat that my dad built, I never got the chance to try out water skiing – by…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Mermaids of Weeki Wachee
Despite having made quite few trips to Florida over the years, I’ve never really had an opportunity to see much in the way of…
Scanning Around With Gene: Back When Typesetting was a Craft
Last week I mentioned that I’m cleaning out my library, and took a look at some books on paste-up and page composition. Today I’m…
Scanning Around With Gene: Throwing Away the Pasteup Books
I hate to throw away books and do it pretty rarely. But the sheer lack of space in my life has forced me to…
Scanning Around With Gene: We Grow ’em Big Here
I’ve always been a sucker for the various “exaggerated” postcard interpretations of the theme “we grow ’em big here,” probably best exemplified by a…
Scanning Around With Gene: Cocktails Napkins and Bad Poetry
My father was a liquor buyer for a small chain of grocery stores in Southern California, so we went to a lot of events…
Scanning Around With Gene: Celebrating 100 Years of Girl Scouts
I was the younger brother of two Girl Scouts, with a mother who served as a troupe leader. So I was dragged along to…