Neil Scott
I am a designer, writer, photographer, though people mainly hire me to do web development. If you need help designing and building a website, do get in touch: [email protected]
Services
- Collaborating with the client on a brief to ensure the most effective process.
- User research to capture requirements
- Content strategy for page flows through the site
- Visual design
- HTML, CSS, JS
- Content Management System implementation
- Ecommerce platform development
- SEO strategy
Design
My goal is to build effective websites that help people to connect.

Get Glasgow Moving
Helping grassroots public transport campaign to build their membership.
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Based in Glasgow, I work with clients across the world to help connect them with their people. I am happy to collaborate with designers or work solo. Interested in discussing a project?Get in touch

Privatisation Departures Board
Bring Back British Rail commissioned me to make a site that counts down the days until renationalisation.
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Positive Stories for Negative Times
Collaboration with designer Orlando Lloyd to help Wonder Fools to bring theatre to the world.
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Since I started writing myphotography newsletterI have been looking for opportunities to experiment with what I've learned. Every week I post the ten most interesting photos I've taken onInstagram. Here is a selection. Click an image to see a larger version.




























Writing
In recent years, I've written for various publications, including The Glasgow Bell, Recessed Space, OutsideLeft, and Crumble Magazine. My current focus isThe Crop, a weekly newsletter about the impact of photography. Sign up below.
Selected Articles
- Brutalist Glasgow
- Chris Killip: Photographer of the deindustrial revolution
- Edward Weston: On vitality … by way of Geoff Dyer and D.H. Lawrence
- Existential Productivity
- Expansion and Contraction
- Helmut Newton: Intuition and the power of fantasy
- Jerry Uelsmann: Love, hate, and indifference
- Man Ray: Photographer of Transfixions
- Martin Parr: Britain's most divisive photographer
- Masao Yamamoto
- Nan Goldin
- Nicéphore Niépce
- On Scenius
- Paul Outerbridge: Ready-made for action
- Philippe Halsman: Death before Life
- Quantity vs Quality
- Robert Capa
- Robert Doisneau
- Robert Frank
- Robinson and The Problem of Glasgow
- Roman Vishniac
- Sebastião Salgado
- The Ethics of Street Photography
- The Photographer's Eye
- Tish Murtha
- 5 Psychogeographical Experiments To See the City Anew
- 95 Theses on Cool, parts 0–17
- An Interview with photographer Simon Murphy
- What happened to Glasgow's visionaries?
- What's your thing?
- William Henry Fox Talbot: Laziness, lateness, and the human hand
- Zhang Xiao