THE PROBLEM

Current cancer and disease awareness t-shirt designs are out dated and tacky. These type of shirts end up only being worn on sparse occasions.

THE IDEA

I wanted to create t-shirt designs for medical research organizations that could be incorporated into everyday style. I was inspired by street wear, which is focused around vintage graphic tees, oversized jackets, and loose jeans/ sweats.

I chose four diseases that are close to my heart due to the fact they have personally affected my loved ones.

I want these t-shirt designs to be fashionable, typographically focused, and informative.

These designs are dedicated to my grandma. She loved butterflies, you can even see the butterfly broach on her portrait, so I felt it was important to make a butterfly the main design element.
These designs are dedicated to my mom. The national color for lymphoma is green so I knew I wanted that to be the main color, it also happens to be my mom’s favorite color.
These designs are dedicated to my aunt. The tulip is the national Parkinson’s disease symbol so I decided to focus the design around that.
these designs are dedicated to my grandma. I wanted to focus on the symbol of the brain, and represent the effect of this disease.