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A couple of nights ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Liz, the founder of PopCultureTees, about her T-shirt blog,  influences, and, of course, her background.

Liz spent most of her life in Maryland, until she got a call from a screen printing company in Tennessee, where she would become a graphical designer.  Sounds like a big move to me, nice work Liz (I moved from TX to IL).  After a few years of working for the screen printer, she fell in love with t-shirts, t-shirt designs, and design theory/practice.  This is when she decided to start her T-shirt blog, PopCultureTees.

PopCultureTees is about 6 months old, and has gained a respectable following from the T-shirt community.  Liz mentioned that she was highly influenced by some very influential companies, Go Media, and 37Signals.  Liz writes majority of the posts, with a little help from her bf Jason, who happens to be a Unix admin (ComputerGeek like me).  Liz is a fan of other t-shirt sites such as: Troundup, Cottonable, and Tcritic.  Which we are also fans of.

PopCultureTees is a colorful t-shirt blog that gives you a look at the latest tees, with a little commentary from Liz.  It is greatly designed and has succinct posts displaying cool shirts that you may enjoy.  In my opinion, the best part of her blog are the descriptive/tutorial posts like Gradients and Halftones in Screen Printing (which I’ve already read three times) and So You Wanna Design T-Shirts? Part 1: There are THAT many ways to print a shirt?….btw, where is Part 2?  These posts give us newbies an insight of how things are done at the low-level of design.  I’ll be honest, I couldn’t design a STOP sign in Microsoft Paint…ha.

Liz, thank you for taking time out of your schedule to speak with me.  I learned a lot.  In this blog-loving world, I wish you the best of luck with PopCultureTees.

p.s. To learn more about Liz and PopCultureTees make sure to check out her interview with Remarkable Blogging.

p.p.s. Also, read Liz’s awesome advice on keeping your blog fresh.

p.p.p.s. Is this a letter or something, why am I using “p.s”….oh well.