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Rare is the design angle on a presidential address, but last night’s State of the Union included a shout-out to 3D prototyping. Early in the speech President Obama highlighted recent gains in domestic manufacturing jobs–more than 500,000 have been added in the past three years–offering examples of in-sourcing in progress at Caterpillar, Ford, and a little company in Cupertino. “This year, Apple will start making Macs in America again,” he said [cut to shot of a grinning Tim Cook] before turning to his administration’s manufacturing preservation initiative:

Last year, we created our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio. A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3-D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. There’s no reason this can’t happen in other towns. So tonight, I’m announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Departments of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs. And I ask this Congress to help create a network of 15 of these hubs and guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is made right here in America. We can get that done.

To which approximately half of the audience responded, “Yes we can!”

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Established in 1999, Futurebrand is a global brand consultancy — "built on an inimitable focus on innovation and the future" for added pizzaz in their own description — with 26 offices in 18 countries and is part of McCann Worldgroup. Most recently Futurebrand redesigned the American Airlines and Fiji Airways identities and were in charge of deploying the Look of the Games at the London Olympics. They first gained attention in 2003 when they redesigned the UPS logo. This week they introduced a new identity for themselves along with new positioning, "We are the creative future company." Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

Ogilvy Public Relations graciously opened its doors to the MediabistroTV crew, letting the team run wild through the red and white themed former chocolate factory that’s been renovated to house all of the Ogilvy properties.

Kimberly Ryan played host in showing off the clean open concept space where Ogilvy Public Relations staffers do their relating with the public under the watchful thoughts of founder David Ogilvy who reminds everyone to “Tolerate Genius.”

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At least, that was my first thought on watching this clip demonstrating voice-controlled image editing. We're barely into the era of touch but it's a safe bet that voice will be the next "big thing" in interface innovation. The example here shows off PixelTone, an experimental effort created by Adobe Research and the University of Michigan that combines voice and touch.

A Valentine sent by Steven Heller and Candybird’s illustrated take on the fall 2013 Rodarte collection, shown yesterday in NYC.

• Skip the cupids and chocolate, advises Steven Heller. “I appreciate any Valentine’s Day card that has a devil or other ghoul on it as an antidote to cherubs,” he said in a round-up of V-Day preferences among faculty and staff at the School of Visual Arts. “Remember, sweet things are unhealthy. This was for my son, who is indeed a handsome devil.”

• Get your first look at fall through the charming illustrations of Candybird. Showstudio’s Tumblr is your source for her interpretations of the latest runway looks, including the Little Glam Riding Hood that Oscar de la Renta sent out last night.

• Use stock photos with caution, warns Jeff Sonderman on Poytner.

• Attention design law buffs: don’t miss the American Bar Association’s upcoming webinar, “Industrial Design Rights Take Center Stage: Apple v. Samsung Lessons for Design Protection and Enforcement,” moderated by Sarah Burstein of the University of Oklahoma College of Law. The fun begins at noon Eastern on Tuesday. Register here.

• Still stumped for a Valentine’s Day gift? A tipster in Seattle suggests a heart-shaped umbrella.

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This week, Amazon is hiring a studio photographer, while Eileen Fisher needs a web graphic designer. The Boston Globe is seeking a digital designer, and Hanley Wood is on the hunt for an art director for an architecture magazine. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.

Studio Photographer Amazon (Seattle, WA) Web Graphic Designer Eileen Fisher (Irvington, NY) Digital Designer The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Art Director – Architecture Magazine Hanley Wood (Washington, DC) E-Commerce Photo Studio Art Director Shopbop (Madison, WI)

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The Mac vector drawing application notably adds Photoshop import and a new color picker....

Established in 2006, Demand Media is a "leading digital media company that informs and entertains one of the Internet's largest audiences, helps advertisers find innovative ways to engage with their customers and enables publishers to expand their online presence." They manage the immensely popular sites eHow and Cracked as well as livestrong.com and indieclick.com, among other smaller sites and services. This month Demand Media introduced a new identity. Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

Organized by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), and sponsored by Adobe Systems, the event will be held April 17-19, 2013....

Times Square is awash in hearts this month. Tracey Emin‘s “I Promise To Love You” neonworks are now playing nightly on screens throughout the NYC hub in what is the largest coordinated effort in history by Times Square sign operators. And today the Times Square Alliance debuts Situ Studio‘s “Heartwalk,” the winner of its annual Valentine Heart Design competition (conducted this year in collaboration with Design Trust for Public Space). The Brooklyn-based design firm looked to the collective experience of Hurricane Sandy and “the love that binds people together during trying times” as inspiration for their installation, made from hundreds of boards salvaged from storm-ravaged boardwalks in areas such as the Rockaways and Atlantic City. The heart-shaped enclosure, located opposite the TKTS booth, is illuminated from within. Visitors can prowl the perimeter, peering inside through the slats or step inside. Notes Situ Studio, “At the base of the heart, a flattened area allows visitors to enter the installation itself–alone together for a moment at the center of the world’s greatest city.”

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Back in the day, the not-yet-slickly-professionalized New York fashion scene “could support somebody who didn’t get into the business with a business plan and a backer,” said New York Times style scribe Guy Trebay in a recent interview. “You can no longer do that–that’s out. You better arrive with a business plan and maybe an MBA…” Enter the NYC Economic Development Corporation and the Fashion Institute of Technology, the partners behind Design Entrepreneurs NYC, an intensive, classroom-style, and FREE “mini-MBA” program. Fashion designers whose businesses are based in one of NYC’s five boroughs and have been open for at least one year are eligible to apply for the program, which includes weekend courses on fashion business marketing, operations, and financial management, and culminates in a business plan honed by feedback from industry pros. Applications, available here, are due by March 31.

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“I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing the color purple. That’s the cardinal rule….Purple is a color compromise. You could do a presentation to a group of executives for a new brand, and you could go the very forceful hot, glossy red route and then you could maybe show them the more matte, conservative deep navy route. Weak agencies or a weak chairman will then just end up with a mélange of the two, and you get purple, a color of compromise.”

-Monocle editor-in-chief and Financial Times columnist Tyler Brûlé in an interview with The New York Times Magazine

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Now in its second year, the competition encourages youth to creatively express their vision for driving positive change in local communities....

Founded in 1682, Philadelphia is "one of the leading cities in the world. Located in between New York City and Washington D.C., 40% of the U.S. population is within a day's drive." This succinct description — more facts here — comes from the Philadephia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PHLCVB), the official Tourism Promotion Agency for the city and the primary sales/marketing agency for the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Its mission is to "generate economic impact and job growth by increasing the region's hotel occupancy and revenues" as well as doing "whatever it takes to attract ethnically diverse regional, national and Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

Whether you’re looking to wow your Valentine, wish yourself a happy Chinese New Year, or find the perfect birthday gift for Mayor Bloomberg (who turns 70 on Thursday), we present ten lovely ways to do so:

1. MZ Wallace Valentine’s Day Hamish pouch and card ($35, available from MZ Wallace). It’s impossible to go wrong with a gift from MZ Wallace–particularly when the NYC-based company is in collaboration mode. This cheerful coated linen pouch comes with a valentine printed by the letterpress wizards at Swayspace.

2. Framed John Rawlings print ($139, available from One Kings Lane). Skip the perishable blooms in favor of this enduringly rosy vision by Rawlings, whose haunting brand of glamour has aged remarkably well. Plucked from the Condé Nast archive, the photo originally appeared in the June 1952 issue of House & Garden.

3. Keith Haring iPhone 5 Case ($35, available from Urban Outfitters). Shield your Valentine from heartbreak–or at least a shattered smartphone–with the help of a Haring illustration.

4. Julia Chiang’s “Because of You” edition for The Standard ($300, available from The Standard). Get a piece of Brooklyn-based artist Chiang, whose handmade ceramic links are stamped “Because of You” along with her initials, date, and edition number.

5. Lisa Black Butterfly Dome ($288, available from Fab). “Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man,” said novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov. You’re halfway there with Black’s pair of Ulysses butterfly specimens.

6. The Missing Ink by Phillip Hensher (published by Faber & Faber). Do you know what the handwriting of your closest friends looks like? Probably not. Hensher considers this endangered art.

7. Vintage pencils from Italy ($28 per packet of five, available from Terrain). Ready to preserve handwriting? Stock up on utensils with personality. We like these 1940s pencils, found amdist a cache of vintage art supplies in Rome’s Antica Cartotecnica stationery shop.

8. Robert Longo skateboard ($975, available from AHALife). Who wouldn’t fall for the Sk8room’s signed, limited edition plywood skateboard silkscreened with Longo’s “Eric”? And 20% of the proceeds go to Skateistan, a non-profit organization for kids.
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The latest version of the Mac application adds a number of improvements, notably in the area of user-defined image area adjustments....

Photos: Canstruction New York and Kevin Wick Photography

Create a Jeff Koons-style balloon dog out of 3,500 tins of crab meat? Can do! The team fielded by Gensler and WSP Flack + Kurtz created this canine, “Can’s Best Friend,” who perches atop some 400 cans of veggies, for Canstruction, the international charity competition that returned to New York City this month to challenge teams of architects, engineers, and students they mentor to design and build giant structures made entirely from unopened cans of food.

“We wanted the focus of this sculpture to be on the children of New York, who make up one-third of our city’s hungry population,” said Gensler’s Joseph Fulco, one of the team’s co-captains. Alas, a rule-breaking Masonite board support took the puppy out of the running for the top honor, which went to “Topping Hunger” by the team from Leslie E. Robertson Associates. All of the Canstruction projects are on view through Monday at Brookfield Place World Financial Center Complex. Admission is free, but be sure to bring a can or two of food to donate–it will join the rest in going to City Harvest.
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The common theme in this week's Friday Likes is that some thinking has gone into them — not that past Friday Likes didn't have any thinking, but these have a stronger bent on concept than usual. Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

If you enjoyed games like Angry Birds, Cut the Rope or Hundreds you will like Tapforss. The idea is simple. You have to navigate a crystal ball from nest to nest in a cave by tapping the three navigation buttons that allow you push your ball upwards against gravity and sideways against air friction. The game starts simple and becomes gradually more complicated by adding various dynamic obstacles. Be careful, it's addictive!

You can download it for free for your iPhone and iPad from iTunes for a limited time.

The Science Channel, our source for the highly unscientific adventures of misanthropic savant Karl Pilkington, has marshaled the forces of CGI animation for Strip the City. The new six-part series aims to “strip major cities naked of their steel, concrete, air, ocean, and bedrock–layer by layer, act by act–to explore their hidden infrastructure and solve key mysteries surrounding their origins, geology, archaeology, industry, weather, and engineering.” First up on the stripping block (pole?) is San Francisco, where thare’s fire-fighting water in them thar valleys. Take a sip of your urbane beverage every time someone says “plate tectonics.” Watch a clip below and tune in to Science on Tuesday nights for new episodes that will dramatically dislodge the infrastructure of the likes of Sydney, London, and Toronto.

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