Vitals

Graham F. Scott

I live in Toronto and read a lot. I write, edit, and make websites for fun and profit.

Likes: magazines, progressive politics, non-profit media, contemporary art, bread, typography, css, Instapaper, sustainability, colourful 19th century robber-barons, microbreweries.

Dislikes: talking on the phone, standing on escalators.

Contact

Ways to find me, in descending order of usefulness:

Work

I’m currently a freelance editor, writer, and web designer (see below) with a focus on magazines and non-profits.

From August 2008 to December 2011, I edited This Magazine, Canada’s premier magazine of progressive politics, culture, and ideas. Named small Magazine of the Year by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors two years running, five-time gold winner in the small-circ category of the Canadian Newsstand Awards, and called “the best Canadian magazine you’ve never read” by the United Church Observer. I received an honourable mention from the Professional Writers' Association of Canada in their 2011 Editor of the Year Awards.

Before that, I was an associate editor at Canadian Business magazine, Assistant Editor of Precedent, and a freelance writer with contributions to Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, U of T Magazine, and more.

Here are a few somewhat representative clippings from the last few years:

Design

Increasingly people want websites instead of magazine articles, and I can live with that. I specialize in built-to-order Wordpress sites.

Code

Lately I've been teaching myself PHP and Javascript, in order to have more control over my web design. I am obviously a mere script kiddie, so these are strictly experiments.

Presentations

I’ve made a few presentations recently on magazine-related topics.

Friends

Wonderful people, in no particular order:

Miscellaneous

Maybe of interest, maybe not.