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New plates! Thanks!
Here are all the banners that have been contributed by readers of this site.
If you think you can do better?  Send it over!
We will include it to the rotation. All banners must be 550x80 px.

Many thanks to those who sent their plates!

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 Do-Ho Suh - Paratrooper-I

[ArtSeoul.net] Suh described Paratrooper-1 as being a kind of self-portrait, describing his experience of going to the United States for the first time. A shiny, metallic soldier pulls 3,000 taut, pink strings linked to the signatures of different people, sewn into a kind of parachute on the wall.
"If there's no parachute, then the soldier dies. He has to use it. But when he finally lands, he has to fight in a completely unknown territory. That's something I felt when I went to the United States. It's a parachute that is directly tied into your life," he said.

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 Supersize That Semicolon

[NYTimes] Computers and the Internet have created a new awareness of letters, numbers and even punctuation, spurring designers to use them as graphic elements. "Our patterns are influenced by e-mail and chat rooms," said Georgie Stout, a designer with the 2 x 4 design group in New York, referring to a wall-covering with giant periods and commas.

 Thank you! What a warm welcome we are getting today!
Thanks for the links.
Adam Greenfield & Kaliber10000 { The Designers' Lunchbox }
Armin Vit at Speak Up
Hideki Owa from Shift Blog
If you don't recognise any of those names, you are either preparing your portfolio to apply for a Foundation course in Graphic Design on Mars or waking up from a long coma.
I recommend you go and pay them a visit. NOW!
And also Exego.net
Creative Ireland
Mezzoblue
Stopdesign

 Bookbinding for the CIA

[CIA Careers] It receives hard-copy printed materials from the Press department that are assembled into finished products, such as books, pamphlets, magazines, foldouts, etc. Incumbent is a member of a team of bookbinders responsible for assembling the majority of IPS-produced hard-copy publications, and is responsible for all steps in the assembling process, including cutting, folding, collating, punching, tabbing, padding and inkjet operations. Work Schedule: Full Time. Salary: $61,000 to $69,000. Location: Washington, DC metropolitan area. [Via]

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