About us
Founder and Design Director:
Chris Shirley MA FRGS
Chris is the founder and creative director of Hiatus.Design, the lead on ‘Tales of Adventure’ and ‘Millilux.io’, and is fascinated by technology, travel and adventure!
Studying design at university in the early 2000s, Chris is a former Royal Marines Commando officer, who has notably worked for the BBC in their London HQ, on complex media productions, with multinational tech companies (such as Google), other international news channels (such as ITN’s Channel 4 and ITV), and international celebrities such as Sir Elton John and Bear Grylls.
Throughout his lifetime, he’s travelled to over 60 countries on 6 different continents, spent months in the jungle, desert, mountainous and maritime environments. He’s a Guinness world record holder (for ocean rowing), is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS), has a Master’s degree in Business Management (MA), has completed the infamous Marathon des Sables, multiple Ironman triathlons and now has his sights set on completing the Silk Road Mountain race in the coming years.
