Surface Illustration: Electrical Boxes

So for the latest Surface Illustration class assignment we were to design/illustrate a visual that might have been potentially chosen in a competition to beautify some of downtown Vancouver's electrical boxes. My design didn't win, but I was happy with it=)

Essentially I created this pattern that would repeat and wrap around the box:

 And here are the individual characters:

These were done in Illustrator, but I originally started with hand drawn sketches like these:

Happy Thursday!