Some of the recent submissions for the Social Media special contest from laFraise and Spreadshirt have been great. So, we decided to move the submission deadline from today to Monday, June 1st.

As a little extra motivation for all designers, Spreadshirt CEO Jana Eggers spontaneously introduced a special CEO prize. She will award her favourite design which:

• helps people promote their social media identity
• in a fun and cool way
• with an eye-catching design

with an Amazon Kindle - which, for those who haven’t heard of it, is a brand new digital reading device that allows you to read electronic books, magazines, newspapers and blogs on the run.

The Kindle is currently only available in the States so that the winner will be among one of the few first Europeans to hold it in their hands. Keep those great designs coming and get them in by Monday!

It’s that time of year again – where the warm weather provides many reasons for celebration. 21 June is action-packed this year – not only is it both Father’s Day and the official start of summer, but also International T-Shirt Day. Just like last year we are teaming up with laFraise for a special competition where the winner can rake in a prize of €1,500. The theme of this year’s competition:

Take Social Media to the Streets!

Social Media isn’t exactly something you could normally put your hands on, but rather has become the corners of the net which some call their second home, like:

• Blogs
• Twitter
• Facebook (etc.)
• Flickr (etc.)

We are looking for the best t-shirt design which allows people to communicate their social media presence (nickname, name, URL, status update etc.) on a shirt. Create a design for laFraise and Spreadshirt which best and most concisely conveys social media and its importance for the individual.

Requirements for the design continue reading ‘laFraise and Spreadshirt Team up for T-Shirt Day Competition’

More than four weeks to go to Christmas and yet, laFraise already start to put some mad decent goodies on the table to thank all designers and customers for a wicked ‘08.

For all graphic pros, they launched what is probably the t-shirt design contest with the biggets prize money ever (correct me if I´m wrong): the 15,000 - in words: fifteen thousand - Euro contest. That´s 12k GBP, folks! Deadline for submissions is December 1st. More details can be found in Jared´s art/design/fashion blog with a delicious strawberry flavour.

For all buyers, laFraise offers the following discounts in their shirt and hoodie filled online boutique:

Buy 2 T-Shirts, get 1 free with the voucher code santa2&1*
* = - 34% on all orders with 3 articles minimum.

Buy 4 T-Shirts, get 3 free with the voucher code santa4&3*
* = - 43% on all orders with 7 articles minimum.

Buy 6 T-Shirts, get 6 free with the voucher code santa6&6*
* = - 50% on all orders with 12 articles minimum.

And even though this promotion runs until the end of December, you better don´t wait too long with your order as all products are limited to editions of 500 pieces each.

It’s day three and we are close to the finals. Today we are taking care of a healthy living, and you know: sometimes, this is the hardest part. Right at the start we found ourselves in the kitchen not sipping oily hot coffee with fat milk as usual, but green tea without sugar and some strange greek mountain herbs.

Back to the office - and in a lucky moment, Tobi caught Eike right before she wanted to shut the windows - today these windows stay open, freezing in fresh air is preferred to choking in the computer heated office.

Over to lunch: Instead of a 5 class menu or some quick rolls at the corner bakery we chose to go for the Gandine, a nice little location not far away - but far enough for a little running tour. Here we picked some salads and even the dessert can be described as “semi-healthy”: icecream made of olive oil, parmesan cheese or carrots.

To pick up some energy in the early afternoon, we tried the organic gummy bears stars with real costa rica cola. Afterwards, Michel decided to do a little “smoker’s yoga” on the terrace. And yes, we have to admit that some of our team couldn’t resist to join the cake session, but what’s good for the mood can’t be bad for the body?

Let’s see with what the laFraisians come up with - and who will win the gold medal in the end. Actually this reminds me: we haven’t decided on the prizes or even how we pick the winner, but the last three days were really fun and insightful anyway, so stay tuned for the big winner’s ceremony next week.