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The Innovation Station is home to Ian Halliday a young designer and recent graduate of the Innovative Product Design programme at the University of Dundee. The 'station exists to serve as a platform for Ian's thoughts on all aspects of design and technology and aims to be a resouce to young designers of all disciplines who are in education or are just starting out on their way.

This site also allows Ian to develop his digital design skills to complement his more traditional product design training, a combination of which he believes is of key importance in an ever changing world where the physical and digital are becoming truely integrated.

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• Apple & EMI Sign a DRM-Free Deal
  
  02Apr07 0 comments

  I think is fair to say everyone has heard about, if not read the essay ‘Thoughts on Music’ written by Steve Jobs and posted on the Apple website not long ago. At the time, Jobs’ essay made sense, and I hold the belief that DRM use drives piracy rather than the opposite, but didn’t believe […]

• Hotmail and my SPF Nightmare
  
  29Mar07 12 Comments

  Do you know what a SPF record is?
  No?
  Neither did I until Microsoft decided to class me as a spammer, and if you read on you might just save yourself from loosing several days of your life trying to implement one.
  Me Sir, a ’spammer’?
  Anyway, to understand what I’m rambling on about we need a bit of […]

• Back Online… At Last!
  
  21Mar07 2 Comments

  They always say that you never know how much you appreciate something till it’s gone, and recently, that’s what happened with my Internet connection.
  The ’station has effectively been in a state of hibernation for the past few months, as I haven’t been able to get online to wake it from its slumber. The details of […]

• 3, 6, 9, 12, 3
  
  31Dec06 0 comments

  Just for fun, I’ve decided to join Michael Heilemann on his little 3, 6, 9, 12, 3 exercise and take a photo of myself, every 3 hours starting at 15:00 on New Year’s Eve and finishing at 03:00 on New Year’s Day.
  The exercise should be quite interesting because I’ll be working behind the bar […]

• (Re)starting the engine
  
  19Dec06 2 Comments

  Firstly, to those of you who have for some reason, returned here on more than one occasion or subscribed to my feed, I apologise for the lights being out at the ‘Station over the past 6 weeks or so. For a ton of reasons I have not been here for a while, and not only […]

• Can you teach a new hand old tricks?
  
  27Oct06 0 comments

  Since finishing my degree and receiving some serious shock treatment at New Designers, I have been working pretty hard on developing my technical (design) skills. Whilst I was at University it was always difficult to try and balance the academic side of design with the technical side, so it’s good to finally have time to […]

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