Alex Scott

Simply put, an artistic sensibility is in Alex Scott’s blood. The unassuming Brit is the grandson of renowned painter William Scott and the son of Academy-Award-winning filmmaker James Scott. Armed with a degree in the visual and performing arts, Alex progressed from traditional arts into the technical realm and has found the role of themer/engineer/tech lead at CivicActions to be the perfect blend of his many passions. Proving himself at British Telecom, he went on to design web sites for a London Animation Festival and the London Aquarium, the latter his first foray into Drupal programming. Meeting up with CivicActions at a Brussels DrupalCon extended his presence in the Drupal community.

Imbuing a site with a strong visual sense is Alex’s main objective and he marries that to intuitive navigation. On Reality Sandwich, a blog space for alternative creative writers and performers, Alex translated the client’s desire to connect the user to their content via a visual prompt into a series of spinning, ever-changing images that take you directly to the artist’s work. With SolveClimate.com, a site that informs on, and advocates for, effective environmental and climatological solutions, Alex took the work of an external graphic designer and translated it to visual terms, crafting a user experience that draws people in both logically and emotionally. In much the same way, he worked on the multimedia-heavy Flunk Arnold web site to give it an effortless visual clarity. Having survived a vegetarian boarding school, Alex’s life today is gravy and further enhanced by the cuisine of his newfound homeland, Madrid. He campaigns for unilateral nuclear disarmament and revels in the many ways he can effect positive change by being a part of CivicActions.