“hello ”

Ian Halliday is a designer, developer and aspiring runner with a formal education in product design, and a passion for all things digital. Fed by his thirst for knowledge and an interest in pretty much everything, Hello Ian is where you’ll find his thoughts and findings on design, technology, the web, books, running and pretty much anything else he finds interesting.

What my parents know already

I was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire on November 4th 1983 at 5:55 pm, and much to the joy of my parents I was making and creating as soon as I could pick up a crayon or a Lego block. From an early age I was known for my tendency for taking things to bits. I always had (and still have) an insatiable desire to learn how things worked; it just took a few years to learn how to put things back together!

I don’t know. Ask Ian

The thing is, I like to know things. Unlike most I like to know all kinds of things. Some how I know what the Corpus Callosum is, I could probably give a good comparison between American Saturn and Russian Energia rockets, I know that the heat generated by a cheetah’s muscles as it sprints would harm it before it got tired of running, and I know Nokia made tires before they made mobile phones.

In fact it was a recurring joke amongst friends at university, that if you didn’t know the answer to any obscure question, you could ask me and get an answer or at least get a reference to help find your answer. It’s not a case of trying to be clever, after all there are many people much cleverer than me. It’s just everywhere I look I find inspiration and intrigue. I’m also lucky to have the kind of mind that just captures everything I see and read. Random facts just stick in my head.

These two things make a formidable combination. As if you ask me something I don’t know, or I stumble across a problem I don’t know how to solve, you can bet I will find out.

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Helloian.com is powered by the awesome ExpressionEngine and is hosted on a (mt) Media Temple (dv) server. Everything you see here is crafted with Textmate, CSSEdit and Vim, and is uploaded with Transmit. Any pixel crafting is done in Photoshop. All text is set in various weights of Helvetica Neue.