This week is all about COLORS here on laFraise. Monday is a green day which means that all our green shirts will be available on a discount. Tuesday is… well, who knows? Even I don’t. The color of the day will be announced in our header graphics so keep a close eye on those.
T-shirts for 15 euros and hoodies for 28 euros. That’s cheap. So cheap it should be illegal. Even the regular price we have for hoodies is pretty darn inexpensive and they’re really nice too. I’m wearing one right now and it just feels like a nice, warm and comforting blanket around me. Uhms, I wonder if I should get myself one more of them…. *heads to the store*
Are you one of our designer members? Have you recieved a weird automail from us telling you that a design that you sent in a long time ago has been rejected? Don't worry. We're just cleaning up the submission database.
The usual way to deal with submissions is either to reject or approve them as soon as we see new submissions. Sometimes a design is submitted many times instead of just one and up to this point we've been dealing with that by approving or rejecting just one of the multiple submissions and doing nothing to the duplicate submissions. Naturally, this isn't really a best solution – over time the database gets somewhat crowded with ”new” submissions that have nothing to do with real new submissions. So, it's about time for me to clean this mess up a bit.
By the way, there's an upside to this too. In case I'm finding some really cool designs (that have been in our competition already but haven't been printed) while I'm doing this I just might give them another shot. Try to submit your stuff only once from now on though. Cheers.
Whenever I travel I pretty much always take a bottle or two with me and that has proven to be a tradition I should stick to. When I visited Paris, Sophie got a couple of bottles of Salmiakkikoskenkorva. Now that I've been visiting Berlin Maïa got some Vana Tallinn and on my last visit Guillaume got a bottle of Marskin Ryyppy. The laFraise team certainly doesn't spit on you if you offer any of us a drink. Some prefer beer, some wine and a occasional shot of vodka is nice too.
The weekend is soon here and since that's when most alcohol is consumed I thought it would be cool to have a game about that. Let's make it simple. If laFraise was a drink, what would go in it? Some rules though; the drink you're building can't contain more than 8cl of alcohol (which is actually quite a bit – Long Island Ice Tea only has 7,5cl), at least 4 ingredients should be used and the maximum size of a glass to be used is 50cl. This doesn't mean that you couldn't write recipes for smaller drinks or simple cocktails – they're appreciated just as well.
You've got only two hours to complete this task – your entry should be in before 6pm Helsinki time (GMT +2). I will notify the froggies and krauts (no offence intended, I'm just messing with you) too, so beware of the competition!
The winner gets enough brouzoufs for a t-shirt from our selection (shipping included). Brouzoufs will be transferred immediately after the game. Have fun! I know I will because when I've posted this I'll go make myself a drink.
Coolness never ends. Well, it may somewhere else but not here on laFraise. I just told you how much I personally enjoyed our latest new shirt and there's already a new one in the store; "Big Fish" is here! If you're a tattoo fan you can probably appreciate the japanese koi styled fish in this design. That alone would've done the trick for me but Cib didn't want to stop there and added a little twist to the illustration – the tiny fisherman. With the koi only the design would get ”****” and ”<3” from me but the fisherman adds one more star, a ”:D” and a ”^_^”.
"Big Fish" in our store
Violent flu is a bitch. I've been terribly sick over the last few days and yesterday I just couldn't do jack. Therefore a few announcements and other issues have been delayed a bit – sorry about that.
Anyway, we've got a new shirt in our store. Pagan truly is making perfect examples of ”less is more” with the way he's using colors. Interesting illustrations don't have to have loads of colors in them and ”Atlantis” shows this in a really nice way. I haven't bought a laFraise shirt myself in a while (mainly because I have way too many already) but this one I really have to get.
"Atlantis" in our store
"Atlantis" (longsleeve) in our store
At the moment we're working on some new special competitions for the EU site. In the meantime, check out the French laFraise for a ”BORN TO BE GEEK”-special. We're doing this in cooperation with lesjeudis.com – a best way to find an IT job in France. In case you speak 1337 better than any other language and know all possible ”All Your Base”-jokes you should definitely check out their site. They might have an open spot!
There's not that much to say about the theme itself since it's quite clear. Do whatever you want as long as it's as geek as possible. The deadline for submissions is 03.03, one winning design will be selected and printed on 500 t-shirts. 400 of these shirts will be sold right here on laFraise and 100 will be given to lesjeudis.com. Instead of the normal 1000 euros we're offering for the winner the winner of this competition gets 1500 euros.
PS. You can now get two Valentine's shirts for the prize of one. Just add two items to the basket and the price will be automatically reduced. ;)
To keep the balls rolling here's a second blog entry about new shirts in a row; ”Petanque Ball” has arrived in two version. The regular t-shirts are ”aqua” and the longsleeves are black for those of you that don't see digging your eyes out in the name of a game as a very luminous thing. Mr. Pandaluna (I think he's the only one of our designer that I'm addressing as ”Mr.” but he really deserves it. Just as soon as he's making one of his wicked killer robots for us I'll start calling him a ”Sir.”) is responsible of this utter madness – thank you!
"Petanque Ball" in our store
"Petanque Ball" (longsleeve) in our store
A new shirt that will most likely be appealing for all of you retro gamers out there is now available in our store. “Game shirt” features a very familiar looking fantasy landscape and seems like only the 8bit pixel mush is missing. So, the concept itself is very retro but the design is very 2008. Big up to Pagan for the design!
If you are wondering about the way the shirt is presented by our model you should check the French blog each Wednesday. The French community is having loads of fun sending in half naked photos of themselves with laFraise shirts and Maïa is publishing those every week.
"Game shirt" in our store
