Scott Mackey
I’m a graphic designer with a background in photography and email marketing. With an educational copy of Macromedia on a Blueberry iMac, I learned design building websites and posters for friends back when the internet still felt handmade. After earning a degree in Conservation Biology from Arizona State University, I headed into the field to collect data, track wildlife, and survive the desert—but it was making the data look good that kept me rooted in design long after the fieldwork ended.
Currently, outside of my role as Email Marketing Platform Manager for Northwest River Supplies, I spend my time running, cycling, and hiking throughout the western United States—navigating corrugated forest roads, sustaining off of granola bars, and photographing landscapes with decades-old camera gear. I’m drawn to places where traces of human ambition meet the stubborn permanence of the natural world.
I live on the Palouse of eastern Washington with my wife Corrie and our dog Monte.
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Much of my creative energy is devoted to the overlapping worlds of peakbagging and amateur radio through Summits On The Air (SOTA). My current long-term project is building an ever-growing archive of photographs from summit activations—using those images, field notes, and sketches to shape a wistful, ongoing story about landscape, radio science, and exploration.
