While Valentine’s Day is about the expression of romantic love, the holiday has engendered the opposite feeling of hate by becoming generic with mass-produced, off-the-shelf solutions; divisive with the exclusion of singles; stressful with the pressure of getting the right token of affection; and obnoxious with visual clichés of hearts and explosions of red. The Valentine icon is a modest attempt at simplifying this overwrought holiday by providing a single, simple visual gesture to express romantic love.
