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Our 2025 Valentine's Day card was created by Maria Masek, a native of Ohio studying at Syracuse University for Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration (Class of 2028). Maria envisioned and developed this character as a wedding planner, then signed her up for duty on this card, pairing her with a haiku by Ana Morley:

Rise Syracuse now!
And lift each other up high.
Love calls us to thrive.

Morley, of Fayetteville, also had a haiku featured in the 2025 poster series.

To learn more about the development of Masek's character, view a video about it (2 min.) on our YouTube channel.

Valentine 2025 (623 KB) Click to download

Our 2024 Valentine's Day card was designed by Wenyi Qian, a graduate of the illustration program at Syracuse University. Enjoy more of her work by visiting her Instagram account. Qian paired her illustration with a poem by Eileen Rose, which appears on the back of the card. The card is blank inside.

Rose's poem:

Watching butterflies
Beneath golden tamarack
Fall time dance of love

This card has two distinct versions, both available for download.
Valentine 2024 card version 1 (1.03 MB): Click to Download
Valentine 2024 card version 2 (740 KB): Click to Download

Gloomy winter weather got you down? Fight back by brightening your loved one’s Valentine’s Day with this “Kiss in the Rain” card by Aletta Ren, a graduate of the illustration program at Syracuse University. Aletta was one of the selected artists for the 2022 poster series. Her card is blank on the inside and features a poem on the back:

I chase the song of
Life. My heart knows the hidden
Path where love finds me

Poem by Meg Catanzarita, 2010

Kiss in the Rain Valentine Card, Pink Hearts click to download.

Express your love for the Salt City Market by sending this Valentine's card, featuring a photo of the market courtyard (before painting of its current mural) and a haiku by Donna Ancillotti of Liverpool. The poem reads:

Expressions of love
concealed in faint colored masks
breathe silent kisses

Graphic design by Naomi Masingale.

Salt City Market Valentine's Card, click to download

Our 2021 Valentine's Day card was designed by Naomi Masingale. Masingale graduated from Pratt Institute with a degree in communication design and illustration and went on to earn a master's degree in arts administration at LeMoyne College. She joined us as an intern in 2017 and now works as our outreach coordinator.

Love is a solution 2021 Valentine card (231 KB) click to download

Our 2020 Valentine's Day card was designed by Jiaqi Liu. Liu was a graphic design intern for us from 2019 and 2021, while earning a master's degree at Syracuse University. See more of her design work at jaiqiliudesign.com.

You Are Owlsome 2020 Valentine card (367 KB) click to download

Our 2019 Valentine's Day card was designed by Jiaqi Liu, former graphic design intern, who made this card in the 2019 spring semester. Liu has gone on to a career in UX design. She also helped us create a Vintage To-Do List card. To explore more of her design work, visit her website.

V-Day card 2019 by Jiaqi Liu (124 KB) Click to download

Our 2018 Valentine's card was designed by William Padgett, retired from teaching communication design at Syracuse University. Padgett has contributed both haiku and illustration to the Poster Project. He painted this image on his iPad with a nod to the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Stumped for a message? Try Padgett's quote: "Cold Ice, Warm Heart. Happy Valentine's Day!"

To see more of Padgett's work for the Poster Project, visit this special webpage.

2018 Valentine Card (6.34 MB) click to download

Our 2017 Valentine's Day card was designed by Naomi Masingale. Masingale graduated from Pratt Institute with a degree in communication design and illustration and went on to earn a master's degree in arts administration at LeMoyne College. She joined us as an intern in 2017 and now works as our outreach coordinator. The card reflects her interest in abstract graphic design, math, and modernist art styles.

V-Day Card by N. Masingale (579 KB) Click to download

The first of two 2016 cards was designed by Shiwen Su, a native of China who earned a master's degree in illustration at Syracuse University, in 2017. Enjoy more of her work at her Instagram account.

V-Day Card by Shiwen Su (1MB) Click to download

This card was designed by Zhongwen Hu, a native of China who earned a master's degree in illustration at Syracuse University in 2017. The cover of the card includes a text box for writing your own haiku. Learn more about Hu's work at her Cargo Collective account.

Valentine's card by Zhongwen Hu (242 KB) Click to download

This valentine was designed by Aimee Sy, who was a graphic design intern for us in the spring of 2015. She created two versions of the card: simple and slightly embellished. Print the card and add your own Valentine's greeting, possibly a haiku.

V-Day Card by Aimee Sy, Simple (468 KB) Click to download

V-Day Card by Aimee Sy, Embellished (590 KB) Click to download

Like Aimee's card? You may also enjoy the canvas tote that she designed for us.

Toni Toland first allowed us use of this card as a handout for a 2013 workshop on love-themed haiku. The text box at the bottom of the card is for writing a haiku. Toni is a retired advertising design professor from Syracuse University. She first helped us in 2006, when she illustrated a poem for that year's poster series. That Native American themed poster turned out to be one of our most popular posters, and hopefully the same can be said for her Valentine!

V-Day Card by Toni Toland (3 MB) Click to download

We're tapping our archive of haiku to create a variety of new poetry-based products. Shop for an assortment of cards, including customizable cards, on the page devoted to haiku cards.

If you're the do-it-yourself type, you can download a card here and print it yourself. You'll get a PDF of an 8.5 x 11-inch sheet, which you can trim and fold to a 5 x 7-inch card.

Start with our Syracuse word cloud card, based on haiku submissions in 2017. "Snow," of course, ranks among the most prevalent words, but also large are "Green" and "Summer."

Syracuse Word Cloud Card (249 KB): Click to download

Poet Marilyn Shelton has seen several of her haiku inspire posters, but in this case we applied her work to a note card. The graphic ornament and typesetting is by Toni Toland, retired from teaching advertising design at Syracuse University.

Thanks to SU's recruitment of Chinese students, Syracuse has come to be known by the Chinese as "Snow City." So it seems fitting that one of our Chinese interns, Qianyi Wang, would set the type for the Chinese version of our snowflake card.

Snowflake Card, English (96 KB): Click to download

Snowflake Card, Chinese (172 KB): Click to download

We offer this card thanks to Jamie Santos, a tattoo artist and active member of the Syracuse art scene. When Jamie reached out to us, we suggested she browse our archive of haiku, and pick out a couple to illustrate as note cards. Jamie's vertical text panels also lend themselves to Chinese, so we created Chinese versions, with help from our Chinese intern, Tong Jin.
The poem, by Jennifer Groff:

Flowering trees flaunt
voluptuous silky blooms
of new spring dresses

Flower Woman Card, English (815 KB): Click to download

Flower Woman Card, Chinese (889 KB): Click to download

Destiny is shaped
like butterfly wings. Allow
your dreams to take flight.

--Oubon Phommanyrath

--Design by Jamie Santos

Butterfly Card, English (787 KB): Click to download

Butterfly Card, Chinese (807 KB): Click to download

Ten favorite haiku about crows, selected from our archives by Gene Huggins, former president of the Onondaga Chapter of Audubon.

Featured poets: Ellen Agnew, Joan Cofrancesco, Jay Cox, Renee-Noelle Felice, Nan Gartner, Mark Kuney, Lawrence Kurlandsky, Jungtae Lee and Doreen Miori-Merola.

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PDF version (225 KB): Click to download

Download Free Passwords & Poems Booklet

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