Poster power!

So, here are the final posters which I'm going to show to my tutors tomorrow. I very much hope they like them, and I even more hope that they will be actually chosen for the degree show! When displayed side by side, they line up perfectly to form one long strip of colour. They're all slightly different to break it up a bit.

I am CROSS

Ok. You may or may not remember, a while back, I designed a logo for the upcoming Brighton student Radio Station, 'Burst Radio'. Here was my post about it.
To remind you, here was the logo I designed for them.

It went quiet, for over a year.
Then today, I opened the student newspaper 'The Pebble'... imagine my horror, when I turned to page 14, to find a feature all about 'Burst Radio', featuring THIS MONSTROSITY:


I don't really know what to do. I mean, I gave it to them, no conditions attached, and so be it. My name isn't attached, so I can't complain that's it's affecting my design reputation.
And is it even that bad? I think it's hideous (as you may be able to tell....) But maybe that's just me being a design snob. I don't know, is it some kind of copyright infringement, or is it just poor etiquette on their part? Am I overreacting? Questions questions questions.

The logo which I designed isn't the best logo ever designed. But what on earth made them think that the best way of improving it would be to add stars, two extra borders and some 1970's throwback typeface?! It looks like a cross between a laundry powder packet and something designed by a 7 year old on word art!

I designed the logo for them, because I think student radio is a really good thing, and I wanted to contribute in some way towards creating a sophisticated modern identity for them. I'm disappointed and frustrated at what they've turned that into.

Do I write a strongly worded e-mail? I've drafted one, which is as polite as can be, offers to design them a new logo (which I will happily do), but quite clearly puts across my disgust.
I shall see how I feel tomorrow.

EDIT
It seems they are using the logo I designed for them on their twitter feed
But they haven't even bothered to separate the two colourways I originally sent them! I despair, I really do. They managed to find someone with the photoshop SKILLZ to create that Pebble version, yet not someone capable of cutting a simple JPEG in half. Oh dear.

Maybe I'm getting carried away...

But I REALLY like this.

My only worries are that

a) It's a bit corporate, and/or boring

b) The tutors will say my type is dull. For the record, I think it works, and that anything bigger/more exciting would distract from the central illustration.

c) The meaning (doors) isn't obvious enough.

AND, they tile nicely.

I still want to do more work with interesting tiling, time allowing. This is gorgeous. I have it as my wallpaper.

The Ocean, and doors.

Degree show poster! New ideas, continuing with my desire to create a repeating pattern...

We were told not to use Brighton cliches... and although Brighton and the sea are pretty strongly related, I like to think that the sea could never be a cliche. Especially when it looks like this:

And you know what's even better about that? THEY TILE

Another idea, probably the stronger conceptually, but the weaker visually... doors. When we're leaving uni, doors are opening for us (and also closing) we're trying to get our foot in the door... and the degree show is like the university opening it's doors to the general public. And uh, when you go round the exhibition, you'll have to walk through lots of doors. So yeah, here's a drawing of lots of doors.

Degree show identity.

I'm probably going about this in the wrong way.
Basically, I want to make a pattern. I am determined on this point.
As for a 'concept'... my concept is, I'll work on making an awesome pattern, then shoe-horn in some kind of conceptual idea about why I've done it.
For example, the first one here. (Which ultimately I think would look awesome as a paper cut) It's all about directions, and the boxes represent people. And university is all about going places. And they look a bit like windows. The university has windows. Windows on the WORLD!
Oh dear.


And secondly... Well, many facets. The univesity is made up of many different creatives, who have ultimately come together to make this complex whole form, that is the degree show. Alternatively, this is the most complicated pamphlet in the world.


Both of these ideas need loads of work, but these are just initial sketches.

Update:
A couple of other things.

I enjoyed the Q.

But the rest of it? Ugh. I was trying to contruct a vectored quiche, and while I failed in that respect, it did create rather a lovely Q form... so I decided to try and construct the rest of the alphabet in similar style. Some of the letters work really well... the Q, the A, the V, and the P... but most of them just look contrived and downright ugly.

As for legibility? Pah! And don't even mention the kerning issues.

But I've wasted approximately an hour of my Sunday afternoon doing this, so I'm going to show you anyway.

More M is for Mountains

Right, I've decided I'm going to make these into a book when I've finished.
If it's super amazing I shall send some out to potential employers, and sell the others for real money!
If it's just ok, I shall probably give one to my mum and then forget about it.
If it's rubbish... well, I probably won't even get to the stage of making it into a book.

Anyway, I'm not going to post all the pictures on here, because if it does turn out to be super amazing, no one will buy one if they can see all the pictures here. (Yeah, because I know you're all HANGING ON MY EVERY WORD to find out what the next letter is going to be, right?) :D

Anyway, here's a sneak preview of some others. I've done as far as 'O'. (But not K, or N, and need a better F and E) Martin the science teacher is giving me all sorts of helpful suggestions, but somehow I didn't think 'Oestrogen', 'Occipital' or 'Oncologist' would be quite right. He did suggest Orbit though, which is genius.