14 February 2008. It was twenty years ago today.

In February of 1988 I was in college and single. Since I had no one special to share Valentine's Day with, I decided to give an anonymous long-stemmed red rose to each of my close female friends. I smuggled the flowers into the dorm and taped them to the appropriate doors in the small hours of the night.

This was the logo I designed for the card that accompanied each rose. I was inspired by the typography of Roger Dean, as I am to this day:

I also worked the core of the logo into a T-shirt which I painted and wore on that day. It seemed like a nice, subtle way to spill the secret:

I scanned in the T-shirt in two passes, digitally aligned the halves together, and did a major amount of cleaning (with Gimp and the Wacom tablet) to remove the cracks and flaking in the paint.