Making aged signs (Old Signs)

Today I will talk about aged signs, otherwise know as old signs. How do you make a new sign look aged? Well I just recently learned something about that.

We did some Italian Signs. We first designed them. I was given a picture of how the signs looked. I then went into Adobe Illustrator and recreated the signs. I drew then exactly how the pictures showed them.

I then printed the sign of on our Large format printer (Roland). We printed them on a matte vinyl so they were not shiny.

Now for the aging. If you take a rusty reddish paint and water it down, you can spray it onto the sign and let it drip down. If it is too much you can spray Windex on it to make it thinner. You can also oxidize the sign by using a whitish yellowish paint, really watered down and spray it on there. When it dries, the sign will look oxidized.

Here are some examples of the aging work we did: