Thursday, February 28, 2013

Cool Graphic Design Shop images

Graphic Design Shop
graphic design shop
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the proper pie shop_4_whtbk (2)
graphic design shop
Image by Rarely Obscure
graphic design, Illustrator, Rarely Obscure, Photoshop, Graphic Designer


the proper pie shop_5_blkbk
graphic design shop
Image by Rarely Obscure
graphic design, Illustrator, Rarely Obscure, Photoshop, Graphic Designer



Sabateria
graphic design shop
Image by Aniol I
Zapatería
Shoes shop

Cerco formes tipogràfiques diferents del llenguatge publicitari i, tanmateix, del disseny gràfic.
Busco ormas tipográficas distintas del lenguaje publicitario y, así mismo, del diseño gráfico.
I search differents typographics forms to the language publicitary and, howehever, to the graphic design.

Nice Graphic Design Course photos

Sid discusses implications of the anilox roll in colour control
graphic design course
Image by Dale Simonson
GDMA students get an in-depth look into flexography at Flexstar Packaging Inc, on a field trip in their Print Technologies course in the Graphic Design for Marketing (GDMA) program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University


The web of printed bags whizzing by, behind the control panel
graphic design course
Image by Dale Simonson
GDMA students get an in-depth look into flexography at Flexstar Packaging Inc, on a field trip in their Print Technologies course in the Graphic Design for Marketing (GDMA) program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University


Critical registration is the main concern when mounting the plates
graphic design course
Image by Dale Simonson
GDMA students get an in-depth look into flexography at Flexstar Packaging Inc, on a field trip in their Print Technologies course in the Graphic Design for Marketing (GDMA) program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University


Flexography press in action
graphic design course
Image by Dale Simonson
GDMA students get an in-depth look into flexography at Flexstar Packaging Inc, on a field trip in their Print Technologies course in the Graphic Design for Marketing (GDMA) program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University


Examining flexo plates and proofs
graphic design course
Image by Dale Simonson
GDMA students get an in-depth look into flexography at Flexstar Packaging Inc, on a field trip in their Print Technologies course in the Graphic Design for Marketing (GDMA) program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Newest Version

Newest Version
graphic design certificates
Image by swirlingthoughts


Design Museum Breda
graphic design certificates
Image by J. Kleyn ∞
From the 100-years in Dutch Graphic Design history exhibition.

A certificate from the city of Amsterdam to thank citizens who have done something special.


Conrad Tack & Cie
graphic design certificates
Image by Double--M
I believe this is a stock certificate.
From Jahrbücher 1914.


moosewood strawberry mascarpone tart
graphic design certificates
Image by kathryn_rotondo
to celebrate katha's graphic design certificate!


Day to day business * good environment from Aiden
graphic design certificates
Image by Jordanhill School D&T Dept
A few shots of recent activity. Busy, busy, busy! Hardly even enough time for photographs. Deadlines are looming for certificate classes. we're on course for having everything finished for the spring holiday.

Graphic Communication outcomes are Illustration and Presentation outcomes are very promising this session. Most pupils are very nearly finished and are ready fro their folios to be graded.

Craft and design pupils are getting there but will be working right up to the wire. I can only hope that their folios are up to date. Practical work is now coming together and final assembly is, at last, beginning to take shape.

Higher Grade Product design pupils are off to a flying start with their Design Assignments. I've been very encouraged with the effort they are clearly putting in. This pace neeeds to be maintained right up to the holiday. Development starts tomorrow.

Higher Graphics have produced some encouraging DTP work that showcases their C4D renders to good effect.

Two and a half weeks to go. I'll sleep for a week after!

Cool Boston Graphic Design Firms images

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graphic design seminars
Image by Mark & Andrea Busse
Lecture presentations at Icograda Design Week's Over The Fence seminar series at University of Washington July 13, 2006.


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graphic design seminars
Image by Mark & Andrea Busse
Lecture presentations at Icograda Design Week's Over The Fence seminar series at University of Washington July 13, 2006.


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graphic design seminars
Image by Mark & Andrea Busse
Lecture presentations at Icograda Design Week's Over The Fence seminar series at University of Washington July 13, 2006.


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graphic design seminars
Image by Mark & Andrea Busse
Lecture presentations at Icograda Design Week's Over The Fence seminar series at University of Washington July 13, 2006.


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graphic design seminars
Image by Mark & Andrea Busse
Lecture presentations at Icograda Design Week's Over The Fence seminar series at University of Washington July 13, 2006.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Cool Graphic Design Seminars images

Scribbles03
graphic design seminars
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Notebooks I created for Advanced Graphic Design Seminar. Hand silkscreened covers.


Scribbles04
graphic design seminars
Image by scottkellum
Notebooks I created for Advanced Graphic Design Seminar. Hand silkscreened covers.


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graphic design seminars
Image by scottkellum
Notebooks I created for Advanced Graphic Design Seminar. Hand silkscreened covers.


Scribbles02
graphic design seminars
Image by scottkellum
Notebooks I created for Advanced Graphic Design Seminar. Hand silkscreened covers.


Carlos Machado Seminar Poster
graphic design seminars
Image by rob_IMX
Carlos Machado BJJ seminar poster in Ottawa

Day 1009. RIP Steve Jobs.

Day 1009. RIP Steve Jobs.
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
-- Steve Jobs

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We got our first computer around 1996. It was part of the Power Macintosh 5000 series. I remember having Macs at school (some old ones, some newer ones) and thought we were pretty darn cool. I made puzzles and played Triazzle (a puzzle game) a lot.

After that, we upgraded to a cool new iMac! We had an Apple retailer two minutes away from my house, and that's where we picked up our "grape" iMac G3. I think it was around winter 1999 (I got it sometime when I was in 6th grade) and I had to go to school conferences. My brother was left to configure the computer (yikes!) That thing was awesome to us... and it was the first time we got the internet! I loved my Mac to pieces, but we did begin to notice the lack of Macs in school.

So, my parents decided to get a Dell. They said that was the way computers were going, so we needed it for school. We got our Dell when I was in 8th grade. Mind you, we kept the iMac (we still have the iMac!), but it was tucked away in the corner of the house and wasn't really ever used again since it wasn't wireless and we didn't have a cable to connect to it.

Flash forward to my senior year in high school. I decided I wanted to go to school for graphic design, and I learned of the awesomeness of the new Macs. I got Evelyn (pictured here) right around graduation (May 2006). She's been with me ever since. I love love love her and she's still running strong! She's got an older OS (10.4), so she's starting to become incompatible with some software. I'm considering upgrading her to 10.7, but I want to do a little bit more research first.

Earlier this year I picked up another iMac from a friend (I named him Wallace). Wallace is newer than Evelyn, but the system is poorer. When I got Evelyn, I made sure to upgrade almost everything. So, she works like a charm. Wallace (aka WALL-E) and Evelyn (aka EVE) are now separated, but one day I hope they can be together again :) WALL-E went to work with me!

My computers are a HUGE part of my life, and I really adore and thank Steve for, indirectly, being a huge part of my life as well. We'll miss you, Steve!



STEVE JOBS _1955-2011
part time graphic design jobs
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The Power Mac G4 Cube was a small form factor Macintosh personal computer from Apple Inc. It was sold from 2000 to 2001. Its cube shape is reminiscent of the NeXTcube from NeXT, acquired by Apple in 1996. The machine was designed by Apple industrial designer Jonathan Ive. The New York Museum of Modern Art holds a G4 Cube, along with its distinctive Harman Kardon transparent speakers, as part of its collection.

The diminutive 8" x 8" x 8" cube, suspended in a 10" tall Acrylic (PMMA) enclosure, housed a PowerPC G4 processor running at 450 or 500 megahertz, and had an unconventional vertical slot-loading DVD-ROM or CD-RW drive. A separate monitor — with either an ADC or VGA connection — was required for the Cube, in contrast to the all-in-one iMac series. Also unlike the iMacs, it had an upgradeable video card in a standard AGP slot. However, there was not enough space for full-length cards. The Cube also featured two FireWire ports and two USB ports for connecting peripherals. Sound was provided by an external USB amplifier and a pair of Harman Kardon speakers. Although the USB amplifier had a standard mini-plug headphone output, it lacked any audio input. The Cube also used a silent, fanless, convection-based cooling system like the iMacs of the time.

Apple targeted the Cube at the market between the iMac G3 and the Power Mac G4. Despite its innovative design, critics complained that it was too expensive. It was initially priced US0 higher than the comparably-equipped and more-expandable base Power Mac G4 of the time (450 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive) and did not include a monitor, thus leading to slow sales. Additionally, early Cubes suffered from a manufacturing issue that led to faint lines (referred to as "cracks" or "mold lines") in the clear plastic case. This was often considered damaging to the aesthetic quality of the computer.

After seeing low profits, Apple attempted to increase sales by bundling more software with the Cube,[citation needed] lowering the price of the base model, incorporating a CD-RW drive standard for the 500 MHz version, and offering an improved Nvidia graphics card as an option. These efforts could not offset the earlier perception of reduced value compared to the iMac and Power Mac G4 lineup. In July 2001 Apple issued a short and slightly unusual press release announcing the product was to be put "on ice".

In 2003, the G4 Cube received a brief return to the spotlight after a series of articles in Wired charted its cult popularity. The articles, focusing on upgrades installed by individual users and retailers such as Kemplar, led to a sharp rise in the Cube's resale value. Nevertheless, with the release of the relatively inexpensive Mac Mini (seen by some as a replacement), coupled with Apple's switch to G5 processors and eventually Intel Core-based processors, the Cube again faded into the background.



Work History
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Image by Hsin Ho
CAREER RELATED

July2004 – January 2008
COMPANY : OCEAN DESIGN, Taiwan
JOB TITLE : Designer (casual)
ROLE : Character design/Graphic design

February – May 2007
COMPANY : DYU Design & Arts Develop Center, Taiwan
JOB TITLE : Designer
ROLE : Public art design/Graphic design/Sculpt
dna.dyu.edu.tw/pub-art/2007/
163.23.3.100/cht/pigs/

November 1996 – November 1998
COMPANY : KINGFORMATION, Taiwan
JOB TITLE : 2D Animator
ROLE : 2D Animation/Character and creature concepts

PART-TIME WORK

July 2001 – February 2003
COMPANY : ACE THEATERS, Taiwan
JOB TITLE : Waiter
ROLE : customer service & watch movies

Cool College For Graphic Design images

Tabor College
college for graphic design
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The homepage for Tabor College in Kansas. I was responsible for site design and art direction.


Graphic Design 2007
college for graphic design
Image by Johnk85
I Finish at Hadassah college '07 - Graphic Design and Print - This was My Catalog of my Big End Of The Year Projects. The Name was "Stick'em Up" the idea was Stickers for room Design. The stickers are big and small and in this case Gothic

This pic is of the inside were i made a room to stick and see using the stickers that come with the catalog. The catalog went Thur Lamination and selective UV varnish.


Graphic Design 2007
college for graphic design
Image by Johnk85
I Finish at Hadassah college '07 - Graphic Design and Print - This was My Catalog of my Big End Of The Year Projects. The Name was "Stick'em Up" the idea was Stickers for room Design. The stickers are big and small and in this case Gothic


front cover for Distort magazine
college for graphic design
Image by [..Rachel..]
Solution for a college brief
design a Music Magazine

(flickr distorts the colours here.boo :( )

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

posters we designed on display at the info kiosk (see notes)

posters we designed on display at the info kiosk (see notes)
graphic design baltimore
Image by brett gullborg


posters and brochures we designed for fells point christmas (see notes)
graphic design baltimore
Image by brett gullborg


Rain Delay
graphic design baltimore
Image by hardlysquare


Hardly Square MICA Class
graphic design baltimore
Image by hardlysquare
Hardly Square teamed up with Rubbermaid (RCP) to teach MICA's Flex Studio Class.


Baltimore Seven Inch Collection
graphic design baltimore
Image by krooooop
Jasmine Sarp's senior thesis project, jazzrcise.blogspot.com/

101212-NEWS-intraday02-front

101212-NEWS-intraday02-front
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Image by Orangeadnan


Some A5 Magazine News
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Image by A5 Magazine
- a5 magazine's future issue is out // buy it // order it // you deserve it
- a5 magazine's portrait issue is now online // check out our site
- send your submission for our next issue: sex // till 30.8.08 // check participating on our site
- 17.6.08 // a5 magazine in the 23rd International biennial of graphic design, brno 2008
if you are there come say hello :)
VISIT: www.thea5magazine.com
AND CHECK OUT THIS:: www.moytoy.eu/Blog/A5-MAGAZINE


112/365: Designing... 4/22/10
graphic design news
Image by @heylovedc
Project 365: Designing...
Thursday, 22 April 2010

Catch the details of this endeavor at tumblr.com/xhs8z86bn

Medal of Honor - Staff. Sgt. Salvatore Giunta - United States Army - 101116

Medal of Honor - Staff. Sgt. Salvatore Giunta - United States Army - 101116
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Reluctant hero becomes first living Medal of Honor recipient since Vietnam

Nov 15, 2010

By Elizabeth M. Collins

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 15, 2010) -- Don't call Staff Sgt. Salvatore "Sal" Giunta a hero.

Don't say that he went above the call of duty when he single-handedly stopped two terrorists from kidnapping his wounded buddy during a ferocious firefight in Afghanistan in 2007.

Because as Giunta sees it, he was just doing his job. He didn't do anything that any other paratrooper in 1st Platoon, Battle Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team -- or anyone in the United States military for that matter -- wouldn't have done, and he can't quite understand what all the fuss is about.

He certainly doesn't think he deserves the Medal of Honor, which President Barack Obama presented to Giunta in a White House ceremony Tuesday afternoon -- making the seven-year Army veteran the first non-posthumous recipient of the medal since Vietnam.

"This could be any of us," Giunta said of receiving the nation's highest award for valor. "Right now, the Medal of Honor, I'm the one sitting here, but it could be any one of my buddies. It could be anyone in any of the services who are out there doing it every day.

"As for someone calling me a hero, I try not to think about it. I let the words fall away. It seems strange."

'I do solemnly swear....'

Giunta, now 25, visited an Army recruiter while working at a Subway in his native Iowa in 2003, after a radio commercial promised free T-shirts to anyone who came by.

"I like free T-shirts," he joked. "They've got to give you the spiel. That's how they give you the free T-shirt and kind of over the course of a couple days, (I) started really thinking about what the recruiter had said. We are a nation at war and and I am 18 and I am an able-bodied male." He went back, found out he could jump out of helicopters, and he was hooked.

Before he knew it, Giunta was on his way -- pumped -- to southern Afghanistan with the 173rd in March of 2005. He was excited to put his training to use and see some action, but quickly realized that war wasn't a game, that friends got hurt, or they went away and didn't come back.

After coming home at 19, he had tasted his own mortality and didn't like it. Giunta was ready to get out, perhaps get an education and spend time with his girlfriend Jennifer. But like many other Soldiers, including five others from 1st Platoon, Giunta was stop-lossed. The only place he was going was back to Afghanistan.

Valley of Death

Now a specialist, Giunta arrived in Afghanistan's remote Korengal Valley in June 2007. Near the Pakistan border, it is a smuggling route for weapons and insurgents, and one of the most dangerous areas of the country. Dubbed the 'Valley of Death,' the 10-mile-long valley has seen some of the fiercest fighting of the war and been home to dozens of American casualties. (U.S. and NATO forces withdrew from the Korengal in April 2010.)

"When we got off the helicopter, it didn't look like any Afghanistan I had ever seen before," Giunta remembered. "The mountains were hard and sharp, and also really, really steep. They had a lot of foliage. I think the trees were some sort of holly tree, so the wood was hard, the leaves were sharp."

The steep terrain and high altitude, he added, would often turn a walk of a few kilometers into a march lasting six to eight hours, especially in the beginning of the deployment.

For the next 15 months, home would be tiny Korengal Outpost and a series of smaller primitive bases, like 1st Platoon's Firebase Vegas, which the men expanded from a couple buildings into bunkers and sleeping quarters made of plywood, sandbags and Hesco barriers. They never had running water, but were able to get electricity after a few months.

The Soldiers spent much of the summer in multiple firefights a day with an enemy who might hide in mountain caves one day, and in village houses with human shields the next. It was constant, unrelenting stress that Giunta said the men dealt with by leaning on each other and laughing at things that wouldn't be funny anywhere but a remote mountaintop in Afghanistan.

Operation Rock Avalanche

On Oct. 19, the men of Battle Company were dropped deep into insurgent territory, on a mission to not only look for weapons caches, but also to win a few hearts and minds. Firefights were to be expected, Giunta said, "but if you get shot at every day, how much worse can it get?"

A lot, it turned out, but no one could have predicted the intensity of bombings and fighting that followed, including a fierce battle that left several 2nd Platoon Soldiers injured or dead.

When what remained of 2nd Platoon entered the village of Landigal on Oct. 27 to look for weapons, Giunta and the rest of 1st Platoon were assigned an overwatch position, guarding the high ground on Honcho Hill. Radio chatter indicated insurgents were out for more American blood, but, as Giunta explained, radio chatter always indicated that insurgents were out for American blood.

"This is why we're there," he said. "Let's help (the Afghan people) when we can and if (insurgents) attack us, perfect. Now we can shoot back."

They didn't expect a trap, he added, or they would have taken a different route back to the KOP when 1st Platoon began walking single file down the narrow crest of the steep Gatigal Spur shortly after sunset.

Ambush

The men didn't make it far, only 350 or 400 meters, before a hail of AK-47, PKM and RPG fire from around 15 meters away stopped them cold. About 15-20 enemy fighters had lain in wait behind a crest in the hill and parallel to the trail in a devastating "L-shaped" ambush that cut Giunta's squad off from the rest of the platoon.

Sgt. Joshua Brennan, who had been walking point, and Spc. Franklin Eckrode were wounded and separated from the rest of the men, who desperately tried to get to them, returning fire with M4s, SAW automatic weapons and grenades. Apaches watched from the sky, but the fighting was too close for the pilots to separate friend from foe and launch the ordnance that would have finished the attack.

"Every single man next to me did exactly what he could, which was get down and return fire," Giunta said of the Soldiers' response. "There wasn't really much cover, so you've got to take the fight back to them. The more rounds you shoot at them, hopefully the less rounds they shoot at you. The less rounds they shoot at you, the less chances you have at getting hit. You've just got to play with what you've got. And that's all we had."

Squad Leader Staff Sgt. Erik Gallardo took a round in the helmet, and watching him fall to the ground, Giunta believed the worst because "only one thing happens when your head moves like that." He raced through enemy fire and dragged Gallardo, who was only stunned, back to cover and helped him up.

At one point, enemy rounds also hit Giunta, who had always complained about wearing body armor. The rounds impacted both his vest and the rocket launcher he carried across his back. He barely flinched, but noticed something was off: the bullets hadn't come from the same direction as the bulk of the fighting.

"That's something to always keep in the back of your mind," he said.

With Spc. Kaleb Casey "laying waste" with his M249 SAW automatic weapon, Giunta recalled, Gallardo, Giunta and Pfc. Garret Clary, who also had an M203, threw grenades and then bounded forward in the aftermath of the explosions. Each time a wave of enemy fire stopped the men. Casey later reported that every man in the squad had bullet holes in their clothing or equipment. They dropped to the ground and prepped more grenades before bounding forward again.

'I will never leave a fallen comrade'

When they finally reached Eckrode, he was wounded, but conscious and had been firing his weapon until it jammed. Brennan, however, was missing. While aiding Eckrode, Gallardo put Casey in charge of security and turned to order Giunta to continue the search for Brennan.

But Giunta was already gone, figuring that because he was "lazy" and out of grenades, he might as well keep running and link up with Brennan, "because it's better to shoot with a buddy than be shooting alone."

Clary was trailing him by about 10-15 meters, but Giunta didn't know that, nor did he expect to find Brennan, a good friend, grievously wounded and being dragged away by two enemy fighters.

"I didn't understand what was going on," Giunta recalled. "I'll think about that moment a lot. That was something I never thought I would see in the military. It was difficult to see. Just reaction -- that's all you really have time to do, but after sitting on it for three years, it's more emotional to me now than I think it was to me then."

It was a part of the Warrior Ethos Giunta didn't have to think twice about, because it went without saying that he wouldn't leave Brennan and that Brennan wouldn't leave him, that any of the Soldiers in the unit would have done the same.

So yelling for help and still under heavy fire, Giunta charged forward alone and fired the 15 or 20 rounds remaining in his M4, killing one of the insurgents and wounding the other. But he did more than save Brennan, Gallardo later explained. The true nightmare of any leader is a Soldier missing in action, and Giunta prevented that.

"They would have definitely, definitely taken him to a lot worse place," Gallardo said. "There's no way we would have come out of that valley without Brennan. We would have fought tooth and nail to find his body or find Brennan. Giunta definitely saved a lot more lives that night."

While Clary stood guard, and the fight continued around them, Giunta and Gallardo, who had come running, found a slight dip where they could protect Brennan, and feverishly went to work on him, going through all of their first-aid kits before cutting apart their own clothing, doing anything and everything to stop the bleeding. He was covered with gunshot and shrapnel wounds, but worst were the injuries to his face, and he couldn't breathe. His wounds were far above their basic lifesaving skills, so they comforted him by talking of home while they tried to get help.

Aftermath

As 1st Platoon finally seized control, Soldiers brought other casualties to where Brennan lay, including the platoon's beloved medic, Spc. "Doc" Hugo Mendoza. He had been shot in the leg trying to help another Soldier and bled out through his femoral artery. He was already dead.

"And that's when I knew the (expletive) had hit the fan. We were in a position we didn't want to be in. We don't have our medic. I have a severe casualty," Gallardo remembered, looking down. Third Platoon had come running when they heard RPG fire, but with the rough terrain, it was another 10 or 15 minutes before they arrived. Their medic gave Brennan a tracheotomy on the spot, buying enough time for the medevac helicopter to arrive, and giving the paratroopers hope.

They still had a long two-and-a-half-hour walk back to the KOP, but as far as they knew, Brennan was in surgery. He would make it. That's what they told themselves, at least, and most of the Soldiers, even Giunta, didn't know about Mendoza. Everyone only knew his own small piece of the battle, which had been chaotic and overwhelming and is even now a blur for many of the Soldiers.

"I just hoped and prayed," said Giunta. "We got back and the first sergeant had the cook cook us up some wings and corn dogs, which, awesome, you know, and you talk to your buddies. 'OK, you're good. You're OK,' like that," but it wasn't long before Battle Company's commander, now-Maj. Dan Kearney, came and broke the devastating news.

"They were better Soldiers than me," Giunta said with a catch in his voice. "That's part of what gets me so much. I was with Brennan for the deployment before and he's always been a better Soldier than me. He was Alpha Team leader. I was Bravo Team leader. There's a reason for that. Spc. Mendoza was a combat medic. He did everything we did, plus when we came back dehydrated, 'Oh I'm this, oh I'm that, I have this blister Doc,' he would fix it. He went above and beyond every single day."

Giunta explained that after a Soldier died, his buddies normally leaned on each other for support, but this time was different. The Army wanted a lot of the men of 1st Platoon, and particularly Spc. Sal Giunta. There were sworn statements and investigations and interviews with the reporters who were embedded in the valley with Battle Company.

"And by the time you're done, you know, we're Infantry -- we're not good writers, we're not good storytellers -- and by the time everyone was done with their sworn statements and turned those in, no one wanted to talk about it. We joked about the good times. There's still people I've never talked about it to," Giunta said.

He called his now-wife, Jennifer, and his mother, Rose, as soon as he could for the distraction, but he couldn't tell them the details. Both knew from his voice that something terrible had happened, and Jennifer had heard the basics from another spouse, but it would be years before either had a clear picture of what had happened on that mountainside, and then, really only from media reports.

First since Vietnam

Kearney originally decided to put Giunta in for the Medal of Honor three years ago, the same night as the ambush, saying that if Giunta's actions weren't worthy of the Medal of Honor, then he doesn't know what is.

"It started sounding like some story I had read about in World War II with Audie Murphy," he remembered. "You don't hear about single individuals taking on the responsibility to leave their squad when they're a specialist, treat their squad leader after they've been shot and then go repatriate their best friend from behind enemy lines, then to run back into the kill zone to start treating his men and leading them out of the kill zone."

Still, it was something that Giunta refused to believe would ever happen until he heard the president's voice on the phone congratulating him.

"For almost three years, someone's like 'Hey, you're in for the Medal of Honor,'" he said. "'Oh, no. I don't think that's me.' Just deny. It's not worth it. That's something that's going to be a big thing and that's not what I need right now. I've got enough stuff going on. And to hear President Obama on the phone, that was a moment of 'Ohhohh.'

"It was good. It was very positive and it was exciting and it was thrilling and my heart was beating and my ears were closing and I had my wife Jen by my side and she's squeezing my hand. And it was positive, but at the same time, it almost seemed unreal," he remembered, adding that as hard as he tries, he can't remember exactly what the president said.

Even now the experience is surreal and bittersweet, as Giunta tries to grasp that he will stay forever in the pages of history for helping his friend and doing his job. It's an honor, of course, but it's not one that he ever asked for or wanted.

"I have never gone to war alone," he said. "I have never been in a firefight alone and I've never felt alone in the Army. There were a lot of other guys who did incredible stuff. The only reason I was able to do what I did is because they were doing everything they could do.

"They make it sound like so much of the bullets were focused on me. No. Bullets don't discriminate. They were on every single man who was there. And now, you're going to put a medal around my neck and shake my hand and congratulate me, and everyone's going to be proud of me? And I didn't do anything other than what I was supposed to? And I know two men personally gave every single tomorrow they'll ever have?"

So it is of those two men, Sgt. Josh Brennan and Spc. Hugo Mendoza, who Giunta said he will surely think of while the nation watches his historic ceremony Tuesday.

"If they can't be there for it, I'm happy their families can, and I hope they can feel my sincere gratitude. I hope they can look down on all this and be like, 'Ah, good.' And I hope when people ask me, I can bring credit to them," he said, adding that he hopes he can also honor the guys who were on that mountain with him, guys like Gallardo who are already proud to have served with him and will one day tell their grandchildren about the day they went into battle with a Medal of Honor recipient.

But most of all, Giunta hopes that the medal will remind Americans that brave young men and women are still out there in Afghanistan, sacrificing their blood, sweat and tears every day.

"I hope I can spread that with this," he said. "This is for everyone who has been to Iraq, everyone who has been to Afghanistan, everyone who has to suck it up for awhile without their family, and it's about the families who have to suck it up when their husband or wife is deployed. This is for all of us. This is for everyone who sacrifices for their country, who sacrifices for America."

Photo Credit: Army Web Team.

This illustration of Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta shows members of his 1st Platoon, Battle Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in the background. The graphic was designed for a special website at www.army.mil/medalofhonor/giunta/index.html.



Business Card Design and Printing
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Image by Woodlands Ad Agency
Business card design for UofH Army Recruiter. business cards


Business Card Design and Printing
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Image by Woodlands Ad Agency
Business card design for UofH Army Recruiter. business cards

Cool Graphic Design Software images

Esenca Software - logo
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Job done for Esenca Software
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Cool Packaging Graphic Design images

Student Packaging Design, MIAD
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Supporting ad for beverage packaging project. From the Packaging Design Class of the Communication Design Program at The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

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Mockup Package Design
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An idea for packaging. This is what you may be seeing when buying kitty egg crayons in stores. Thoughts?


Student Packaging Design, MIAD
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Supporting ad for beverage packaging project. From the Packaging Design Class of the Communication Design Program at The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

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www.miad.edu/


Student Packaging Design, MIAD
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Image by MIAD Communication Design
Supporting ad for beverage packaging project. From the Packaging Design Class of the Communication Design Program at The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

Visit:
www.miad.edu/


Packaging Design- MIAD
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Image by MIAD Communication Design
A packaging proposal for Isle of Dogs pet care products from Communication Design students from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.