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Had this job for a while (well before xmas) - told the customer to wait until I had my CMC - which arrived in Nov - but i've been so busy I havent had chance to get round to properly look at it... however now I'm nearly there with it - customer saw rough versions of it and was pleased - im just not sure whether to leave the 'london 2012' bit as it is (it is raised from the backing part to give it a little shadow), or to go a bit nuts and add a totally different colour (either the purple on the inner mount, or a blue/pink to match the certificates etc).
Obviously a shirt is going in the middle, and a few extra bits to go around the outside (watch/badges and a mini olympic torch) [and the baton is going to be a different colour] which are all goin to be in cove boxes...again i'm not too sure whether to keep these boxes the same colour as the outer mount or...to have a totally different colour (purple/pink/blue)...
Any thoughts would be grand!!
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I think it looks fine as it is, there's enough going on everywhere else and the letters are large enough to be un-missable .... but maybe a coloured core board would also look good, to match your double mounts ... or even a darker top mount that the off-white letters would stand out from more, rather than vice-versa.
As for the coved boxes, I'd go for the same as either your inner or outer mount, whatever they stand out from best.
But personally I just would'nt do it this way, CMC or no CMC; I'd have the shirt and all the 3-D objects, including the heading, mounted on a board, probably not an off white board either, with no window mounts above them and no cove mounts required. Photos etc would be mounted/double mounted in the same board, maybe some even on the shirt itself ... and then glass spacers. Less busy and with no window mounts above the shirt/other 3-D objects, they'd be just on something; not in something, like little coffins, as well.
Too much eye-stopping-and-starting IMHO, seeing a clever frame before what's in it ... innit.
I personally really like what you have done, yes it is fussy but shirts are incredibly boring items with non to little artistic content, faced with this you have created the art with your mounting, for me your mount colour choice is also perfect, I find coloured top mounts while initially look better very quickly become over baring, being there all the time in the corner of your eye spoiling the room, stuck out like a sore thumb neutral imho is far better ( unless they have gone mad with colour in the room).
When a customer asks us for brightly coloured or dark mounts, we offer to visualize the framed picture onto their wall, with our software, when the customer can see the pic on their own wall they almost always change their mind.
I like to do rounded corners on shirt mounts it cuts down on the nothing in the corners.
Deffo do not colour the text as Robo said it does not need more and stands out enough.
I would go with a colour as the the rest of it is very coloured and it may just look like it hasn't been finished. That was my gut reaction on first looking at it before I read your post properly.
