Part 4 of my promising newcomers to the t-shirt block: Literati.

Literati’s catalog is currently fairly limited, but it draws on interesting and appealing concept:  The designs are an visual interpretation of a song’s lyrics – specific lines from specific songs. The current line includes designs inspired by Ryan Leslie, Jay-Z, Gym Class Heroes, Nas, Fabolous and Whitney Houston.

In the future, Literati will be expanding its inspirations to include not only music but other venues of culture – poetry, movies and more.

The Website navigation isn’t exactly intuitive, but the t-shirts offer a great reward for those of us who are looking for original and inspired designs, with interesting and new perspectives on their inspiration – the songs.

A couple of designs I particularly like:

Browse the Literati catalog.