An Interview With Mr. T-Shirts Himself

We like to talk up the Midwest as much as possible, because it doesn’t always get the street cred it deserves, and, plus, since this writer decided to move here, away from near one of those cred-eating coasts, he likes to prove to others that his decision was sound. And what better way to demonstrate than with an interview with Jake Nickell, one of the founders of Threadless, the little side-project t-shirt company that suddenly became a big-big deal nearly overnight.