Valentine’s Day is the quasi-holiday some people love to loathe. Here at Felt & Wire we’re terminal romantics and resist the urge to pile on with the heart-haters. But we can’t pass up a good makeover, which is what Studio 360 offers in its design challenge “Be My Valentine” — an opportunity to get Valentine’s Day out of its aesthetic rut.
“We’re sick of the hearts, the chocolates, the roses,” proclaims public radio’s guide to pop culture and the arts in its call for creatives to post Valentinian reimaginings at Flickr. Some interesting concepts are popping up there already — why can’t V-day accommodate boxing as a theme?. Top entries will be eligible for mention on the Studio 360 show airing the weekend of Feb. 13.
Thanks to the ever-alert Alissa Walker, who clued us to the challenge via the FastCompany.com blog (see her excruciatingly funny comments and simply excruciating card collection here), where she talks with Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen about why Cupid’s stupid and reminds us of past design challenges X.mas and the gay flag redesign.
Hmm, this anonymous post has “caught my toast.” Who-everly cleverly suggested boxing as a V-day theme is onto something witty and kit-ty (and I do NOT mean cute cats). Let’s think about bon-bon boxing and lingerie boxing… and the creative possibilities they open up. How about a template from which you can kuhnstruct your own sampler à la Whitman’s, with a diagram inside the lid itemizing the contents? If only I were a designer, I’d be right on it!