We’re soon releasing the first of our upcoming Graphi-Tee series, a tribute to Banksy, Bristol’s famed graffiti artist. Using a T-shirt as canvas, we put ourselves in his shoes and came up with lots of nifty ideas to spray paint on cotton.
On our first design, we have a graffiti artist spraying what appears to be a reptile. Although Banksy would never do such a thing, we think it’d be a cool one to wear.

To do this work, I posed as a graffiti artist holding instead a can of Axe deodorant, and used Adobe Illustrator’s live tracing tool plus some manual editing to get the stencil look.

For those not familiar with Banksy, here’s a wonderful article by The Guardian. Pictures of his work are now available in print, and there’s even a tour guide listing Banksy-sprayed locations in London.
An amusing graffiti idea, that I think hasn’t been done yet, would be to paint a bunch of urinals near a big club for those who just can’t hold it any longer and don’t know where else to go.
[…] This is the second design of our graffiti series. The pocket will obviously be placed on the top left of the tee. We’re still debating which T-shirt colour to use (most likely silver) and whether to include the illustration of a graffiti artist (most likely not). […]
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