Our office will be closed on Thursday, October 11, 2007 until Friday, October 19, 2007 to honor the Idl-Fitr holiday. We will be back for normal operations on the next Monday afterwards. During the holiday, we will still be in touch via email.

As environmentally-concerned designers, one of our real-life efforts to help save the planet is to power-down our electricity usage in the office, be it air conditioners, printers, fluorescent lights, you name it. We tried our best to turn them off when they’re not in use. Over the year, one of our most notable power hungry equipment was the CRT monitor for the office Windows PC, which with our constant website projects and with everyone running non-Intel Macs or Windows with IE 7.0, its presence is required for IE 6.0 testings (Yes, that is probably what it does most if not printing ID cards for our clients).

While the PC itself doesn’t do much to our individual workflows, we decided to give our office’s corner occupant an upgrade from its rather old and distorted CRT monitor. Our selection goes to the Samsung Syncmaster 740N. It’s a fairly decent LCD panel with a fair price as well. And since we don’t need the DVI connection, the analog port is nothing for us to be worried of. The specifications itself is not top-notch, but it’s a good bargain with that kind of price. And Samsung is known as a reliable LCD manufacturer as well.

With the new monitor, we hope that it’ll give us all aesthetic, energy and health benefits that could lead us to better productivity, because LCD monitors are slimmer and nicer to look at, and not to mention has no graphical distortions, uses way less power (which means a positive point for our electricity bill), and easier to the eyes with its much less radiation than the CRT.

Two holiday posts in a row can’t be good, but what can we say? :D Our office will be closed on Friday, August 17, 2007 to commemorate the Indonesian Independence Day. We’ll be back open on Monday, August 20, 2007. We will have limited access to email for the specified period.

Our office will be closed on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 for Jakarta’s governor election. Operations will be back the next day as usual.

This is our secondary entrance to the office. A bit bumped and dented steel door, but that doesn’t stop us from being creative :D