Today’s feature is an interview with the driving force behind GuyVernes.com.

Before you start reading this article, I’d like for you to check out this link to the GuyVernes website. It will open up in a new window, so you won’t lose your place here. Go ahead, we’ll wait.

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What did you think? When I first saw the site, I was mesmerized. First by the music, then the photography, and let’s not exclude the shirts. I was compelled to know more about the Guy Vernes brand, so I asked if I could get an answer to a few questions and here is what came back:

I saw this alert for a new contest site called Voteforart.com and was intrigued by the concept of crowdsourcing designs for licensed Collegiate apparel. I wanted to know more, so I contacted Jeremy Parker and asked him a few questions. Here is what he sent back:

12 questions with Jimiyo, http://www.jimiyo.com

Next in our series of interviews is Jimiyo. We wanted to know what made him tick, so we asked him a few questions. He was also nice enough to give a few video links showing the transformation from sketch to computer image and if you’re like me, you’ll be fascinated too. Now, on with the interview.

PCT: What’s outside your window right now?

Jimiyo: There is the California blue sky above the second floor of my apartment porch.

12 questions with.. wotto

Here at PopCultureTees.com, we appreciate good design and from time to time would like our visitors to get to know the people behind some of the nicest shirts in the tee world. Our guest this week is wotto. We asked him a few questions (12 to be exact) and here is what he had to say.

Andy from Thunderfrogs recently interviewed Australian designer RikkiB for us. Rikki’s work is typified by this awesome t-shirt; swirls, rainbows, and shooting stars, lightning bolts and geometric shapes.

TF: Hi Rikki, thanks for agreeing to the interview. How long have you been designing t-shirts? Can you tell us a little about how you got into it?
RB: I started off making iron-ons when I was a youngun, then graduated to screening until I realised it’s much easier when someone else does the printing. That’s when I decided to focus on the drawing. …

“…I’d like to work for a few years in a design firm I think but my goal is to open a t-shirt store/boutique in the real live world and online. Not just an average store but something more of an experience like Johnny Cupcakes maybe, I won’t people to come to the shop for the magic of it all rather than just a tee, it’s a funky adventure!”

“…I’ll try anything, keeping thing fresh means people don’t get bored by you. I like traditional marketing, newsletters are good and good old email works too. Twitter is a great tool, I’m close to my 1000 follower mark which is pretty exciting, the viral side of it doesn’t really work, it’s a total gimmick! However if you re-tweet you get the 25% discount code, so my campaign isn’t conning anyone.”

“…I built it and kind of expected people to start buying stuff right away. It doesn’t work like that. I realized that you have to really advertise and get the stuff out there where people can see it.”

Amanda talks about the challenges of selling t-shirts with her own store, and about where her inspiration comes from.

“The biggest mistake I made when I first started selling tees online was caring about what people thought, the reason is because my first design bombed when I actually started to sell tees.”

Jonas talks about design, selling tees, and staying true to himself as a designer.