Work done

Copy editing

Language

Canadian English

Year

2023

Medium

Trade magazine

Publisher

Craft Ontario

Style

CP (Canadian Press)

Credits

On masthead (page 4)

To read it

You can buy this issue from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

Work done

Copy editing

Language

Canadian English

Year

2023

Medium

Trade magazine

Publisher

Craft Ontario

Style

CP (Canadian Press)

Credits

On masthead (page 4)

To read it

You can buy this issue from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

Work done

Copy editing

Language

Canadian English

Year

2023

Medium

Trade magazine

Publisher

Craft Ontario

Style

CP (Canadian Press)

Credits

On masthead

To read it

You can buy this issue from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

Work done

Copy editing

Language

Canadian English

Year

2023

Medium

Trade magazine

Publisher

Craft Ontario

Style

CP (Canadian Press)

Credits

On masthead

To read it

You can buy this issue from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

Work done

Copy editing

Language

Canadian English

Year

2021

Medium

Trade magazine

Publisher

Craft Ontario

Scope

7 articles (out of 12) and contributor biographies

Style

CP (Canadian Press)

Credits

On masthead (page 4)

To read it

You can buy this issue from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

These were the articles I edited:

1. “Portfolio: SugaCayne Designs” (page 58)
2. “Focus Point: Tosca Terán” by Scott Coish (pages 10–15)
3. “Portfolio: Pavitra Wickramasinghe” (page 54)
4. “Portfolio: Wally Dion” (page 63)
5. “Celebrating the Crafts: Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts Artistic Achievement Award” by Lera Kotsyuba (pages 20–26)
6. “Inquiries: Michelle Jacques: An Interview with the Head of Exhibitions and Collections & Chief Curator at Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Sask.” (page 68)
7. “The Pursuit of an Unknown Tomorrow” (pages 29–30)

Work done

Copy editing

Language

Canadian English

Year

2020

Medium

Trade magazine

Publisher

Craft Ontario

Scope

All articles except the two poems

Style

CP (Canadian Press) with Chicago citations

Credits

On masthead (page 4)

To read it

You can buy this issue from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

I copy edited the Fall/Winter 2020–2021 issue of Studio magazine except the two poems. This was the first time I edited in CP style.

Work done

Copy editing

Language

Canadian English

Year

2019

Medium

Trade magazine

Publisher

Craft Ontario

Scope

3 articles (out of 14)

Style

Modified Chicago

Credits

On masthead (page 10)

To read it

You can buy this issue from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

I copy edited about a fifth of the articles in the Fall/Winter 2019–2020 issue of Studio magazine. The material required a relatively heavier edit and some terminology research.

These were the articles I edited:

1. “For the Love of Colour” by Leah Gravells (pages 43–45)
2. “Under the Radar: Megan Samms” by Lera Kotsyuba (page 52)
3. “Colour and Context” by Jennifer Poulin (pages 18–22)

Work done

Copy editing

Language

Canadian English

Year

2018

Medium

Trade magazine

Publisher

Craft Ontario

Scope

9 articles (out of 19)

Style

Modified Chicago

Credits

On masthead (page 8)

To read it

You can buy this issue from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

I copy edited about half of the articles in the Fall/Winter 2018–19 issue of Studio magazine. The edit involved Chicago-style citations, a reference style that I was not familiar with.

These were the articles I edited:

1. “Fait main / Hand Made” by Bruno Andrus (pages 72–74)
2. “I’m DONE Defining Craft” by Mary Callahan Baumstark (pages 50–53)
3. “Under the Radar: Jake Whillans” by the editors of Studio (pages 70–71)
4. “1968” by Paul Epp (page 11)
5. “Charged Agency: Craft and the Souvenirs of War” by Julia Krueger and Heather Smith (pages 46–49)
6. “Mentor and Metalsmith: The Silver Art of Arthur Brecken and Wesley Harris — Review” by Bettina Matzkuhn (pages 77–78)
7. “Heinemann’s Clay Continuum” by Heidi McKenzie (pages 18–23)
8. “Craft + Technology in the work of Iris van Herpen and Philip Beesley” by Marie O’Mahony (pages 34–39)
9. “Arts of Seeing” by Michael Prokopow (pages 62–65)

Work done

Proofreading

Language

Canadian English

Medium

Trade magazine

Year

2017

Publisher

Editors Canada

Pages

16

Scope

Everything in English

Style

Modified Chicago

Credits

On masthead (page 2)

To read it

You can download this issue from the publisher

I proofread the English portion of the September 2017 issue of Active Voice (about half of the content). This was the last print issue published by Editors Canada before the publication went online-only.

Work done

Cantonese language review

Language

Romanized Cantonese

Genre

Graphic novel

Year

2021

Publisher

Annick Press

Scope

Romanized Cantonese

Style

No style requirements

Credits

Copyright page

To read it

You can buy it from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

This was a project in which I reviewed the romanized Cantonese (yue-latn) in a graphic novel.

Although there were no official style require­ments, the author was aiming for the language of second-generation Cantonese speakers.

Work done

Proofreading

Language

Cantonese

Chinese

Genre

Graphic novel

Year

2023

Publisher

Annick Press

Scope

Chinese characters

Style

No style requirements

To read it

You can buy it from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

This was a small project in which I reviewed the Chinese characters in a graphic novel. It’s essentially proofreading, but only for part of the book.

Because Cantonese is relatively low-status, to maintain suspension of disbelief, the project actually involved two languages, Cantonese (yue-hant) and Hong Kong Chinese (zh-hk).

Work done

Glossary editing

Language

Romanized Cantonese

Genre

YA fiction

Year

2023

Publisher

Annick Press

Scope

32 terms

Style

No style requirements

To read it

You can buy it from the publisher or check if your library has a copy

This was a very small project in which I reviewed a glossary of Cantonese terms and suggested changes to how the terms should be transcribed. It’s essen­tially style sheet development, but only for a small part of their style sheet.

There was no style requirement so what I aimed for was internal consistency.

This was in some sense a bilingual project. The source language was Cantonese in Chinese characters (yue-hant); the target language was romanized Cantonese (yue-latn) in the context of Canadian English.

Work done

Proofreading

Language

Canadian English

Genre

Annual report

Year

2019

Publisher

Craft Ontario

Scope

All 24 typeset pages

Style

No style requirements

To read it

You can read the report online

This was the editorial portion of an annual report.

Work done

Copy editing

Language

Canadian English

Medium

Blog

Year

2016–present

Publisher

Editors Toronto

Scope

14 articles as of March 2020

Style

Modified Chicago

To read it

You can read the articles I copy edited online

BoldFace is the official blog of Editors Toronto (the Toronto chapter of Editors Canada). A team consisting of the chapter’s members takes care of the copy editing, and as of March 2020 I have copy edited 14 articles.

Work done

Publication design

Language

Canadian English

Medium

Zine

Year

2015

Publisher

Editors Toronto

Pages

8

Scope

Design, layout and final PDF

Style

Modified Chicago

Editors Toronto (the Toronto chapter of Editors Canada) produced BoldFace: The official blog of Editors Toronto, 2015 Print Edition for the Word on the Street Toronto Festival in the fall of 2015. It featured selected blog posts in a zine-like format so that people who wouldn’t normally read the blog could have a chance to get a taste of it.

The design had to follow Editors Canada’s then-new branding guidelines and Editors Toronto’s style sheet, and I had to keep it at eight pages; but other than these two requirements I was free to design it any way I wanted.

Work done

Publication design

Language

English

Medium

Zine

Year

2014

Publisher

OCAD Student Union

Pages

16

Scope

Editorial management, copywriting (fiction and nonfiction), interviewing, design, layout, imposition and binding

Style

No style requirements

Credits

In Editor’s Note (page 2)

Cadmium was the official zine published by the OCAD Student Union (the student union of OCAD University in Toronto, Canada). The student union would select a different editor to produce each issue.

One of the challenges I faced was that previous episodes of the “continuing story” feature did not present a consistent universe, so I had to find and analyze previous episodes. Once I figured out what characters were in the story and what geography could make sense I was able to create the new episode that I needed.

Work done

Indexing

Language

English

Year

2019

Scope

Entire book

To read it

download it here

Problem

I bought a copy of Chika Miyata’s How to Draw Almost Every Animal when I attended DesignThinkers Toronto 2018, but quickly realized it was almost impossible to find any animal when I needed a reference: While the book has a table of contents, it’s not in alphabetical or any other logical order.

Solution

Because the book has no index either, I decided to create my own. The index would have the same size as a regular page in the book so that it would be practical to glue it to the book, between the last page and the inside book cover.

Since only the names of animals were being indexed, the indexing itself was straightforward. I wrote the index directly in InDesign, without using any special software.

Results

Although I have omitted some cross references to keep the final product to two pages, this simple index has allowed me to either quickly find the animal I need or quickly determine that what I need is not covered by the book.

Work done

Translation

Music typesetting

Language

French into Hong Kong Chinese (FR > ZH-HK)

Year

2022

To read it

download it here

In collaboration with

Esther Ng (critique, editing and chords)

Problem

After looking up the lyrics of the Ukrainian national anthem, I felt the need to find a translation into a language I speak so that I can have a deeper connection to the lyrics.

After finding a number of different English versions and no existing Chinese version that can be sung in Cantonese, I decided to attempt a Cantonese translation.

(For lyrics, this usually means translating into a regional form of written Chinese so that the result makes phonetic sense in Cantonese. This does not usually mean translating into actual Cantonese.)

Cantonese is a tonal language, so phrases will create micro-melodies, or tonal contours. In Cantonese songs, if you fit words with the wrong tonal contour into the music, the words will sound wrong, so words are not only chosen for their meanings but also their tonal values, and sometimes the “correct” words cannot be used because their tone contours cannot be fit into the music.

Solution

I based my translation on the French translation on Wikipedia because I do not understand Ukrainian. I had also read some background information provided by the Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group.

As I normally do when translating lyrics into Cantonese, at various points in the process, I tried singing finished parts of my translation to different recordings to check that the words I chose could indeed fit into different variations of the actual melody.

Drafts were also critiqued and edited by a musician friend, who provided invaluable feedback.

Results

This is still a work in progress, with measures 14–15 currently being the major sticking point.