Jane: Eye Heart New York

My design is a play on the classic I <3 NY t-shirt, using photographs instead of letters and symbols to imitate an iconic image: a human eye with an iris manipulated into a heart, and the city-scape of New York imposed on top of it. I wanted to play around with the satirical capabilities of a t-shirt, as well as take the opportunity to express a simple idea in a brief composition of images: something you'd look at for a few seconds before making the connection. I experimented with cutting out the eye at first, but decided that it looked strange and jarring against a white background. Instead, the eye would probably be very large across the center of the t-shirt, with the rest of the background a faded grey to match the skin tone in the photo.