Interviews

T-Shirts don’t grow on trees. They are plentiful though as you can see here on the Shirt List. The lists of tees and new tees never seems to end. Where are they coming from and who designs them. Who sells them? Well, read these interviews to find the answers to those questions and more. The tee biz folk are an eclectic bunch and thanks to the interwebs we are able to communicate with these fine artists, artisans and other cool dudes and dudettes from all over the world. Check out these interviews to get a look in the window of the t-shirt world. It might not always be pretty but it will always be interesting.

Interview with murraymullet: the Phil Jones Interview

Interview with murraymullet: the Phil Jones Interview

Phil Jones. What can I say about him. Well, quite a bit really but for the most part I will let him speak for himself. I mean, that’s what interviews are all about and that’s what this is. Well, this is an introduction to an interview. Not a very good one but that’s how I [...]

Interview with Seymour Yang aka Meerkatsu

Interview with Seymour Yang aka Meerkatsu

See that guy in the picture above. That’s not just posing. Well, maybe it is just posing in that picture but what I mean is that while he may be a bit of a poser like to do funny poses for the camera he really is a tough guy. That’s right. How do I know this? [...]

Interview with Diarmuid O Cathain aka Dirmface

Interview with Diarmuid O Cathain aka Dirmface

This interview with Diarmuid O Cathain (aka Dirmface) is the first interview of a fellow Irishman on the Shirt List. Yeah! Diarmuid lives and works at home with only his dog and his anglepoise lamp to keep him company ever since he left his safe job as a graphic designer to enter the exciting world of [...]

Interview with Alex Solis aka alexmdc

Interview with Alex Solis aka alexmdc

If you have ever visited Threadless you have probably seen this guy’s art. No really. That’s how popular his art is on that website. Two tees that he designed are in the Top Scoring category at Threadless, one is Parting the Red Sea and the other is a Harry Potter inspired collaboration with Alice X. [...]

Interview with Jon Penn: Co-founder of Goodfibres

Interview with Jon Penn: Co-founder of Goodfibres

If you decide to judge Jon Penn, co-founder of the new ethical t-shirt brand, Goodfibres, by the picture above, as I do, you would probably say that he probably knows how to enjoy himself but he is a bit of a sloth. OK, that’s not really fair because he is a very busy man and [...]

Interview with Dale Edwin Murray

Interview with Dale Edwin Murray

Dale Edwin Murray, that’s what the DEM stands for but you probably figured that out by now. Orphaned at the age of two, he spent his young life being passed from doting foster-father to doting foster-mother until he finally decided he couldn’t take the middle class cuisine and the first-class education anymore. He struck out on [...]

Interview with Aaron Jay AKA randyotter

Interview with Aaron Jay AKA randyotter

The world that Aaron Jay grew up in is like a David Lynch movie. Odd things appear in an otherwise normal life. We’re talking crossbow training and robot-building in school, horny wild animals, cage fights between tattooed pandas, beavers and otters. Despite this background and his hate of Adobe Illustrator, and despite his young age, [...]

Interview with Nathan W. Pyle

Interview with Nathan W. Pyle

Even before I noticed his designs I noticed his name, just because it was so unusual to see someone’s username as an email address. Yes, Nathan W. Pyle goes by the name nathanwpyle at gmail.com and yes, I have asked him about it and yes, he gave a satisfactory answer. Now you know what it’s [...]

Interview with Francis and Laurence Minoza aka nicebleed

Interview with Francis and Laurence Minoza aka nicebleed

Francis Minoza and Laurence Minoza are two brothers who make up the design team Nicebleed. Hailing from Cebu in the Philippines they have racked up quite a number of tees on both Threadless and Design by Humans. If you are familiar with these stores you have certainly seen a few of their t-shirts. These guys focus [...]

Interview with Anna-Maria Jung aka queenmob

Interview with Anna-Maria Jung aka queenmob

Anna-Maria Jung, or queenmob, as she is know as in the t-shirt world is a geek. There is no doubt about it but she could be the coolest geek in the world. She loves comic books, she even creates them, she loves video games and pen and paper RPGs. She has met the legendary Bruce [...]

Interview with Justin White AKA Jublin

Interview with Justin White AKA Jublin

You probably already know of Justin White from the many t-shirts bearing his designs that are floating all around the Internet. He usually goes by the nickname Jublin and his quirky but polished style has helped get his designs printed on all the major t-shirt contest websites. His first print was on Threadless and he [...]