Hisashi Nogami

Hisashi Nogami is a Nintendo employee and producer for Splatoon, Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3. Nogami first thought of making the Inkling characters in Splatoon.

Childhood
Hisashi Nogami has said as a child he used to collect cards

Squid Research Lab
When giving presentations about the Splatoon series, and for promotional events, he often takes on the persona of a researcher at the fictional Squid Research Lab, by dressing in a white lab coat and dark sunglasses. As part of acting out this character he also makes squid-related puns by replacing/emphasizing the sound いか with its homophone イカ, "squid", most commonly イカがですか ("How are you?") and イカした ("It was lively / energetic").