Scanning Around With Gene: Kids and Guns
For reasons best left to psychologists’ speculation, young kids, especially boys, seem predisposed to want to shoot things. I spent a good many hours…
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: Typography at the County Fair
I love county fairs, not for the rides or the food, but for the wide diversity of graphics and typography. It’s a mish mash…
Scanning Around With Gene: Vacationland USA
Summer is the time of vacations, which for many people these days means a stay-at-home week off of work to do chores around the…
Scanning Around With Gene: Where the Steering Wheel is on the Wrong Side
I’ve never owned a British car, though I’ve been attracted to a few and came close to buying an MG sports car when I…
Scanning Around With Gene: Oh Boy, it's Summer!
Summer doesn’t officially arrive for a few more days, but in my town the county fair just got under way, and so it sure…
Scanning Around With Gene: Riding Mini-Bikes and Getting Stuff Welded
Being the boy in the family, it was my job to accompany Dad on the “manly” excursions such as those to the muffler shop…
Scanning Around With Gene: Bon Voyage and Happy Landings
I was 16 when I had my first trip on an airplane, and it seemed like a really big deal at the time. Going…
Scanning Around With Gene: Behind the Scenes at Your Local Newspaper
I am ashamed to admit I no longer subscribe to a print newspaper. I never thought I’d find myself saying that—I love newspapers and…
Scanning Around With Gene: Rejected Column Ideas
To make an installment of “Scanning Around With Gene” interesting, I need at least 10 to 15 themed images, and I often scan many…
Scanning Around With Gene: Back When Smoking Was Rewarded
One of my first jobs was working at a small local pharmacy. During the week after school I’d deliver prescriptions, and on Saturdays I’d…
Scanning Around With Gene: Born in 1956
For my birthday a few weeks ago, I received a complete set of National Geographic magazines from 1956, the year of my birth. It’s…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Great Reddy Kilowatt
It’s hard to imagine when people didn’t take electricity for granted, yet in the beginning electricity was restricted primarily to lighting. And as a…