Liquid Treat

Oh, to travel back in time and spend a week as Alexander Girard. This mid-century designer created textiles for Herman Miller and collaborated with the likes of the Eameses and George Nelson. Until you fix the flux capacitor on your DeLorean, House Industries has brought you the next best thing: a collection of fonts and objects inspired by Girard. Choose from whimsical alphabet blocks, a timelessly illustrated memory game, a delightful family of fonts and more.

by Michelle Taute

Many bloggers express themselves through words, but with the blogosphere approaching overpopulation, it wouldn't hurt to pay a little more attention to site graphics. Enter House of Three with a mix-and-match line of blog headers and backgrounds to pretty up the internet. These decidedly girly designs layer color, texture and pattern in way that's reminiscent of a lovingly crafted scrapbook page. And at $1.50 each, these à la carte graphics are a bargain for any blogger lacking the time or cash for a custom design.

by Michelle Taute

If the folks at hugeType were to let us write their tagline, it might go something like this: "Type geeks seek fellow iPhone users for found type fun." The hugeType online experiment invites you to upload photos of individual letters and symbols to an online image pool. You'll find snapshots of everything from hand-painted letters to the size on the back of a bowling shoe. Each image is prepped for your iPhone screen, so you can spell out clever messages when you line up everyone's phones at happy hour.

by Michelle Taute

The wonderful folks behind the six-word memoirs at Smith are now offering up brief-yet-poignant reflections on romance. Watch the trailer for their new book—Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak—for laughter, tears and enough optimism to update your Match.com profile. Our favorite musings include "Married by Elvis. Divorced by Friday" and "Don't trust a man who waxes." You can cozy up with the whole collection for a mere 10 bucks ... or if you think you can best the bunch, share your own abbreviated tale of tragic/true love on the site.

by Michelle Taute

Valentine's Day tends to herd people into two polarized camps: blissfully coupled or bitter and alone. But Alyssa Pheobus' hand-drawn love song lyrics explore the messy territory in-between. Her graphite strokes intersperse provocative pieces of text—"No interest in free love" or "You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright"—with hash marks, intersecting lines and a sometimes-dizzying overlap of text and pattern. Imagine the maze of human relationships rendered on oversized cotton rag. See the work through Feb. 21 at Bellwether Gallery in New York or browse online.

by Michelle Taute

If love was a DVR, you'd hit rewind after your last bonehead remark. But the real world requires, say, a loving gesture or killer communication skills. Honesty Stamps help you skip to the kissing and making-up with eight rubber stamps featuring truthful and sometimes humorous statements. Screaming match? Try "I swear on my mother's grave I'll never do that again." Need a few brownie points? Ink your own greeting card with "In all my life I've never met anyone as beautiful as you."

by Michelle Taute