For this assignment, we had to go around town and find, well, letterforms in the environment. It’s harder then it looks, and requires looking at things in a different way then normal. It originally had a blank background, but our teacher suggested an old paper texture might look better.
Link to high-resolution PDF (11MB).
Dude, nicht schlect! Where did you find your beautiful texture?
Some suggestions: the word serendipity below the photos is what immediately pulls the eye, giving me no chance to try and “read” the photos. Have more confidence in the images and don’t cheat the viewer of that experience.
There’s a little mark that looks like a slash between the I and the P. If it’s part of the texture, some photoshop action may be needed.
And finally, with old paper backgrounds, I usually set the blend mode to Multiply instead of normal, just from an authenticity standpoint. (white print or areas in photos on old paper means that white ink would have had to have been used [yikes, there’s a scary English tense], which I think would be super rare. White is the color of the paper, and all that.) Up to you, of course, if that’s something you want to consider.
Lovely composition.
If you search on Google Images for “old paper textures”, it’s one of the first results.
It looked harder to read if “Serendipity” was in white instead of blue on the paper texture.
I tried using Multiply as per your suggestion, and it only really had an effect on the pictures, making them warmer, which actually looked pretty good. It also made the white text disappear. The texture is also quite low res for a 300 dpi A4 page.
Thanks for the feedback!