Sneak Peak At Some Page Layouts

I thought it was time to share some page designs and ideas. The layouts have been in a constant state of flux, as ideas and font choices have morphed almost continuously in the last few months. My main challenge has been to incorporate the artwork into a pleasing sense of place and to try and not divert from it. I am obsessed it seems with giving the entire thing a very organic feel as far as the sense of design. I'm using actual old paper, stained and fragile; torn and beat up book covers gathered at garage sales and the like, almost as if the book itself was found years later. What I'm reaching for is where you can almost smell that old musty paper. It's also important to me that it hopefully still maintains a somewhat modern edge and the whole thing doesn't wallow too much in a nostalgic feel. These are a few of the results of that approach as things have developed. Some have the text blocked in, and some don't as of yet...