Introducing our brand new beautiful Busted Flush logo!
The title of the play is a poker term and refers to a hand that contains four cards of the same suit and one from a different suit, spoiling the potential flush.
It is something that looks promising and good but fails.
The choice of a playing card image was therefore the focus of our ideas for a logo.
The Queen of hearts has connotations of strength, power, love, femininity, loyalty, tenderness and the nurturing mother.
These are qualities of Laura, our protagonist.
The crown worn by our queen is elegantly crafted and rich with roses, again symbols of love, and the deep red suggests not only passion but commitment, integrity and strength.
Red roses in the garden can suggest prosperity and success in the home.
Again, all these qualities are present in Laura’s life, the winning hand she seems to be holding in the first act of the play.
The inverted queen therefore embodies Laura’s life literally turned upside down.
The finely-wrought crown has turned to thorns, suggesting pain, suffering, sorrow. The roses have given way to flames.
Our queen is now a burning woman, her flesh scorched with uncontrollable floods of heat, but also threatened with destruction. It remains a powerful image but one without serenity and control.
The whole heart held confidently by our upright queen is now a broken thing, threatening to fall from her fingers.
Laura undergoes this journey of fear, desperation and threat, her rage and bewilderment isolating her from a world in which she used to have confidence.
She is not only in danger of self-destruction, but also in dragging those she loves into the conflagration.
Roses have symbolised womanhood, menstruation and sexuality for centuries, and how fitting that the finest roses grow with sharp, threatening thorns.
The beauty and power of the rose contains a fragility, the truth that it will not last.
As a woman embarks on the menopausal years it can, indeed, be a thorny issue, painful, unexpectedly menacing.
Put the stories centre stage: celebrate the rose, educate about the thorns.
With grateful thanks to the talented Anna Metcalfe whom we commissioned to design our logo: aer.metcalfe@gmail.com
We had great fun working with Anna and seeing the changes as our ideas coalesced. We also discovered how many hundreds of different shades of teal there are!
Enjoy our two time lapse films showing some of the developments of the design:
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