I think there is some awkwardness about both of your versions Laura. As others have mentioned about the first one, I think you would find this difficult to work with in certain scenarios such as a website as it will create awkward white space around it and take up a fair bit of length on a page.
The newer, more landscape orientated one has a better use of space but I think at the moment is looking a bit weak. I think a really good idea may be to get some tracing paper, trace over what you have, and then change it, a little every time you trace it - kind of morphing it into something else as you go, playing with different line widths, perhaps even change the case of 'designs' so you don't have the g hanging down and are able to play with that word as more of a shape than text.