Chris Monaccio

Link Roundup 06/30/08 - 07/11/08

Chris — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:58:36 +0000

This is going to be a bit bigger. Due to last week’s festivities, I didn’t finish this post and decided it would be better just to roll it up into this week’s roundup. Hope these links are of some help to someone!

A Passion for Paper

Inspiration: Andy Gilmore Design

Don’t Let Fear Make Decisions

10 Things About the Working World I Wish I Knew in College

The Secret to Landing Clients Nearly 100% of the Time

Marketing’s Wheel of Misfortune

Achieving “the Package Deal”

Poking Holes in the Long Tail Theory

12 Realities of Pricing Design Services

Wal-mart Gets a Facelift

Customer Service. Duh.

Adobe, Google, and Yahoo! Make Searching SWF Files Easier

Knowing What You’re Not

National iPhone 3G Activation Failure Due To Apple’s “Short Tether” System?

Truth Behind the Energy Star Label

Starbucks: Can you Smell Their Desperation?

The Four Day Work Week: Is it a Good Idea?

Making of the Obama Print

“Brand U.0″: Why your Personal Brand Matters

Photoshopping Military Might

Effective Use of Blog Sidebars

ASIS International Chapter 151

Chris — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:25:04 +0000

Visit Site…

This site template was created for the Fredericksburg/Quantico area chapter of ASIS International. It features a CSS flyout menu for navigation and members may translate the page into Spanish using Google’s translation service. The design is simple and the pages act as templates as no content was provided at the time of creation. The code is well-crafted and utilizes many techniques I have recently learned. It was good experience and I hope to build upon it.

Link Roundup 06/23/08 - 06/27/08

Chris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:52:27 +0000

Great Advertising Inspiration

Five undisclosed features of Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Sears is now officially too incompetent to even take your money

AIDES Condo ad from ffffound (NSFW)

Amazing Wall-E Retro Posters

How do I start investing for retirement?

2008 Toyota Matrix Designs

Study of Wealthy Confirms Classic Joke

Social Networking Will Become Business As Usual

The Employable Web Designer

36 Beautiful Business Card Designs

Arrows, Lines, and Improving Your Photoshop Workflow

Flexible Layouts: Challenge for the Future

Link Roundup 06/16/08 - 06/20/08

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:51:19 +0000

I’m going to start posting interesting links that I find through some of the websites and blogs that I visit on a regular basis. I’d like to do this around the end of each week, mostly to add some fresh content to the site on a weekly basis. I realize it’s Thursday, but I’ll most likely be out of town tomorrow and so I’ll post this today. Anyhow, here’s cool stuff I found this week:

Abduzeedo Wallpaper of the Week #10

Series I Savings Bonds vs. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities

Freelance Freedom #57

Micro-transactions: Making the Experience Portable

Very Little Love for Marvel

Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping

New work in my portfolio!

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:59:32 +0000

I’ve taken some time out and added past and recent projects to my portfolio, including some 3d models created during my time at DEI, the titles to “Warcraft Pwned my Life”, and a photo I did a considerable amount of retouching to. Check them out over in my portfolio!

Blackhawk - Utility Module

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:54:25 +0000

Renders of the Utility Module from the Blackhawk helicopter. I used a few techniques I learned from my colleagues at DEI Services Corp. to create the smooth edges and curved inset on the front of the module. There is a bump map creating the rough texture on the module’s surface.

Blackhawk - No. 1 Transfer Module

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:47:14 +0000

These are renders of the No. 1 Transfer Module from the Blackhawk helicopter. The smooth, curved nature of the piece was very difficult to model and took several revisions.

Blackhawk - APU Accumulator

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:38:14 +0000

These are renders of the APU Accumulator of a Blackhawk helicopter. Created during my time at DEI Services Corp., it is used in animations demonstrating it’s function, installation, and removal.

Warcraft Pwned my Life

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:54:58 +0000

This titling sequence was created for a documentary about the personal impact of the game “World of Warcraft” on the filmmaker’s own life. In order to fit the theme of the film, the titles are inspired directly by the game’s title sequences and share many similarities. Total time spent producing the titles was approximately 20 hours and were delivered in QuickTime format using the H.264 compression codec.

Marine Corps Museum

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:10:41 +0000

This is a photo taken of the front of the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, VA. The image above is the photo as taken, the image below is after retouching. To achieve the result, two photos with different exposures were combined and then adjusted to match believably.