“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”   T. S. Eliot

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How can you lose with a Dr. Seuss drawing on the cover? The article also won us a CASE award.
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During the 10 years as editor, his team introduced the readers to many of our successful alumni, from scientists to engineers, and entrepreneurs to artists.
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When the magazine was launched in 2004, it was named @UCSD. This is the cover of the premier issue. The magazine was later renamed Triton.
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One of the pleasures of editing Triton was working with a great team at Patera Design. From conception through to the final designs or illustrations, it was an collaborative process that resulted in many awards
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This was a mega-magazine of 304 pages, containing over 1,000 articles, both short and long.
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Stanford Travel premiered its first Silk Road rail trip from Beijing to Moscow
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UCSD'S TRITON MAGAZINE

​Raymond Hardie was the founding editor of the UC San Diego alumni magazine, launched in 2004. He remained as editor for 10 years and left after publishing the September 2014 issue. The visual at right represents 10 years of covers. 

Before the publication of  the new magazine, his team produced a 60-page proposal that included analysis of the alumni readership, budgeting, and various structural and layout possibilities for discussion with university leadership.

The magazine was launched with the intention of equally privileging University research and our alumni community. Our mandate was to print narratives that informed, entertained and hopefully filled alumni, donors and friends with a well-deserved sense of pride. The first issue was mailed to over 80,000 alumni.

Each issue of the magazine presented us with the challenge of choosing from an abundance of stories and each individual issue was only part of the ongoing story of the successes of UC San Diego and its graduates. These ranged from features on scientific research in the university to features on alumni entrepreneurs (cover, left), to television writers and producers, to politicians and best-selling authors.
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 Bringing those stories to UCSD alumni for 10 years was an interesting and rewarding challenge, in that we were constantly working to achieve a balance between  university news and the stories of alumni achievement.

To visit the current Triton website, click here. ​
STANFORD MAGAZINE

Hardie started at Stanford magazine, as the editor of their Centennial issue.

After the publication of this special issue, he became senior editor on the bimonthly magazine, working on 40 issues, editing and also writing features.
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​In 1995, Hardie conceived and edited a book on the Stanford Memorial Church (above right). Glory of Angels contains three essays and over 30 photos and illustrations of the Stanford Memorial Church. This also involved historical research  in the photo archives. The research, writing and editing of the captions were particularly challenging but also deeply satisfying.