Vintage Hip-Hop T-Shirt

As mentioned in my previous post, my 17 year old brother is coming to stay with me for two weeks. He is doing graphic design for my husband's company, but I also have daily challenges for him! I'll post some of these, as you might want to use them for short end-of-year activities or develop them into something further.

Another challenge I have for my brother is to design a 'vintage, hip-hop inspired t-shirt'. 
I am going to have him make one saying 'Uncle Tommy' or 'Big Boss Benny'. (or maybe 'Nephew Benny') My brother is Tommy, so it will be photos of him, my two year old son is Benny, so it will be made with photos of him. 

There t-shirts are quite popular again, as the 90s seems to be popular.... either with actual hip-hop artists, or made ironically with different people (I stumbled upon many while looking at Pedro Pascal stuff on Etsy). These were also popular in the 90s with sports stars and you can find many examples with Michael Jordan.

I imagine my brother will make his while mostly following an online tutorial, so it doesn't leave too much creativity, but is really to help him develop his Photoshop skills. If a teacher wanted to turn this into a unit, this could be a good starter activity, then students could research another style of tshirt for their own design (possibly on the theme of fandoms?... I could see it connecting well to identies and relationships or personal and cultural expression).

If I was doing this with my students, either at the start of a unit, or for an end-of-year activity, I might start off the lesson by showing this time lapse:

The first photo I am showing him is of this Outkast t-shirt (I did live in Atlanta), and these are the tutorials I have picked out for him. He only needs to use one, but if he watches the first one, and it doesn't make sense or he doesn't like how the information is delivered, he can move onto the next one:
Tutorials:

• Designing Bootleg Vintage T-Shirts
• How to DESIGN BOOTLEG RAPPER T-Shirts!
• Bootleg t-shirt design tutorial

and some more inspiration:

If my brother makes one with his face on, I will get it printed onto a t-shirt for my son Benny. If he makes one with Benny, I will print it for him and my other brother. We have bought some cheap transfer paper, but might get it printed by someone else, depending on how to the transfer paper comes out!