http://departmentofrecords.net Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:44:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://departmentofrecords.net/2012/04/the-death-of-printed-books/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2012/04/the-death-of-printed-books/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:31:07 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=332 http://departmentofrecords.net/2012/04/the-death-of-printed-books/feed/ 0 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/11/steve-jobs-by-walter-isaacson-hollow-book-by-hollowbookcompany/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/11/steve-jobs-by-walter-isaacson-hollow-book-by-hollowbookcompany/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:44:03 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=317 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/11/steve-jobs-by-walter-isaacson-hollow-book-by-hollowbookcompany/feed/ 0 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/10/a-printer-to-envy/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/10/a-printer-to-envy/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:21:07 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=288 Recently I've had a run in with Amazon whom failed to deliver my Epson printer, which I patiently waited 10 days for. I did get a refund, but in disgust of the wait time, I ran over to Best Buy to try to pick up the same printer. Instead I find another. ]]> http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/10/a-printer-to-envy/feed/ 0 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/09/blasting-towards-the-past/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/09/blasting-towards-the-past/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:01:36 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=283 When the dreamers and imaginations from those of the past thought of the future of information. They imagined having every book, document, map, reference. They dreamt of magical dial systems so elaborative, that one could call for poetry, fiction, non-fiction, history, drama, philosophy in multiple languages. With the advent of miniature photography, galleries, sculptures, architecture could all be gazed at from under the microscope. Mounds of information could fit into a single postcard where public reading could exist. ]]> http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/09/blasting-towards-the-past/feed/ 0 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/09/waters-for-glue/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/09/waters-for-glue/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:12:06 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=272 So recently I've been working on my off computer design skills, and have been using powered glues which require them to be mixed with water. Which is a semi-new experience for me because I've not touched glue since I graduated from school. Since more and more work done on computers are done on computers. However the handcrafted world is still done best by hand. A graphic designer's world is left so flat and simulated on the computer. Even with all the magic of limitless undos, and cleanest of cutting that didn't leave little pieces of dust, scraps and little round circles on the floor. Photoshop lacks the ability to capture human mistakes that can become part of the art. The art of plop, the spill, the drip. The rusty nail, damage from water, burnt to a crisp, edges gone wild due to temperatures of the room. The natural habitat of the artist/ designer has to be remembered, simulated in the mechanical workings of Photoshop.]]> http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/09/waters-for-glue/feed/ 0 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/08/lighting-up-my-path/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/08/lighting-up-my-path/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:40:14 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=265 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/08/lighting-up-my-path/feed/ 0 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/08/adobe-edge/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/08/adobe-edge/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:42:35 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=259 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/08/adobe-edge/feed/ 0 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/07/koalas-to-the-max/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/07/koalas-to-the-max/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:00:45 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=252 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/07/koalas-to-the-max/feed/ 0 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/07/visualizing-the-web-in-3d/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/07/visualizing-the-web-in-3d/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:45:32 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=237 Tilt a little remarkable cool Firefox extension tool that poses to not only be useful, but also fun. It visualizes DIVS and other HTML code as stacks and presents them as three-dimensional layered objects. This extension was so much fun, here are a few of the sites I visited, and captured their results: ]]> http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/07/visualizing-the-web-in-3d/feed/ 0 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/07/lormify/ http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/07/lormify/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:08:27 +0000 Richie Lau http://departmentofrecords.net/?p=234 http://departmentofrecords.net/2011/07/lormify/feed/ 0