Just a quick reminder guys, the Rip Curl contest started Monday June 8th and you have until June 22 to submit.

All submissions go to laFraise FR.

The theme is “Rip Curl Values”. So anything that embodies the perfect wave, or the essence of the sport. Anything that expresses the Rip Curl attitude (”Rip Curl cares but don’t give a shit”) and outlook on life and it’s pleasures.

The winning design will be printed on 250 Organic tees at laFraise and 250 lycra prints over at Rip Curl.

1st Place will get: 1500€ + VIP package with : 2 days in the south of France for the Rip Curl Pro Junior, and The Rip Curl Music Festival.

2nd Place will get: 1200€

Good luck guys!!

We’re happy to lauch a special contest with BACARDI !!!

Flavoured rums with fresh fruit extracts, BACARDI LIMÒN and BACARDI RAZZ are made to be the final touch of your summer party. Create incredible mojitos Lemon or Raspberry (Bacardi Razz) and taste something really different and fresh.

Your mission
You will have to create 2 typical characters representing the personality of
BACARDI LIMÒN and BACARDI RAZZ and respect these rules :
- Positive and heartwinning image of the brands
- No childish motives
- No sex and violence
- No alcoholic abuse (no drugs in general)
You’re not obligated to use Bacardi’s logo but we´ll be pleased to see you referring to the basic fruit ingredients of BACARDI LIMÒN (Lemon) and BACARDI RAZZ (Raspberry)

Our mission
Bacardi will host an exhibition with some designs from the contest - between 10 and 15, the number will depend on you!
The exhibition will be in Berlin the 10th July and in Hamburg the 11th July
Two days of Bacardi party to celebrate your creative and fresh spirit !

The contract
All participants have to be over 18.
Each design will be printed by laFraise on 500 t-shirts.
Each design will be printed on special stickers
Each design will be used for future events on poster, flyers and stickers.
The winning designs will be featured by LODOWN and VICE.
The right session is for worldwide and without time limitation.

The prize
We will choose two winners : one for BACARDI LIMÒN, one for BACARDI RAZZ.
Each winner will receive 3000 € for his design.

The Jury
The Jury will be composed by Term Shon, Creative Director of Jörg Dietzel Brand Consultant, Thomas Marecki Director of LODOWN, Tim Meier, Brand Manager for BACARDI Flavours and Guillaume for laFraise.

The contest
The submissions are opened on Monday 8th June until 22th June (12:00). One additional week for the votes. There´ll be two different galleries, on the german part of the site : one for BACARDI LIMÒN, one for BACARDI RAZZ.

Some technical points
Typo : ITC Avant Garde Gothic BT Medium / ITC Avant Garde Gothic BT Demi / ITC Avant Garde Gothic BT Bold.
Bacardi LIMÒN : Lemon > Pantone 102C
Bacardi RAZZ : Rapsberry > Pantone 1945C

Hi everyone,
please note that the end of submissions for our Social Media special competition was moved from Thursday, 28th of May, 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 that :
- helps people promote their social media identity
- in a fun and cool way
- with an eye-catching design
with an Amazon Kindle - a digital reading device which 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 the first Europeans to hold it in his/her hands.

Now take that chance!

Time for another great contest here on laFrause EU. This time it’s with the wonderful CrazyLabel. Need an introduction? here goes:

About Crazy Label and Andy Woo
Founder and executive producer of Hong Kong independent creative living brand Crazy Label. He is convinced that toys should not be confined to the realm of children, but can also be works that encapsulate art, lifestyle and creativity. The resulting products should be fun to play with, functional, and visually pleasing. Crazy Label is intended to be a platform where designers can express their craziest ideas.

Enlightened?

Now down to the details.

-contest runs May 18th-June 1st

-all submissions go to the CrazyLabel category on laFrause EU

-1 winner will be selected for a prize point of 2000 Euros and a prize pack from Crazylabel. (more winners may be selected depending on number of submissions)

-the theme is an ironic one, “Nature Loves Humans”

I want to see some great designs, as only we’ve come to expect from you.

Good luck!!

Social Media removed nerdiness from the web. Services and sites like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, FlickR or Daily Motion bring people together, let you spread your thoughts, and allow you to share your creative output in a very comfortable, cool way.

For International T-Shirt Day 2009, Spreadshirt and laFraise want to take Social Media to the streets with personalisable Social Media shirts.

In order to keep the design personalisable, we won´t screen print the shirts and will use Spreadshirt´s “plot printing” (more information) techniques instead. So please make sure the designs you submit are vector designs that don´t use more than three colors, don´t use gradients, and don´t use line widths smaller than 1,5 mm.

Here´s your task:

o create a design that celebrates Social Media or specific forms of Social Media as important channel for popular culture
o incorporate space for personalisation (e.g. user names, status messages, URLs)
o please make sure to not violate any copyrights (no brand names, no logos etc.)

In order to be a potential winner, you also have to submit your design to the Spreadshirt marketplace. But you don´t have to care about this right now: we´ll send all participants an email in which we explain how that works.

o the winner will be selected by the community and a jury consisting of laFraise and Spreadshirt employees
o the winner will receive €1,500 in cash
o his/her design will be presented at the “Open Runway” show in Berlin on June 21st
o the winner design will show up in an ad in Vice magazine Germany 08/2009

Now stop stalking your neighbour on Facebook and start designing :-) Submission start right now and end on may 28th!!

Well the VKMP3 contest is coming to a close, so that means it’s time for a new contest.

This time it’s with the legendary CultureClub. Never been there? Here is a brief story:

It was clear from day one, that Culture Club was not going to be just another club. Its’ three founding fathers had one thing in common: doing things differently. Need we mention the Eskimo Parties, Ten Days of Techno, Club 69, Belmondo,…

After many (crazy) years, quite a few legendary parties and extraordinary party locations, they decided to take the ultimate step: Culture Club. The Leitmotiv? “Nightlife is lifestyle is nightlife”.

Seven years later Culture Club has established itself as one of the most innovative clubs when it comes to fusing the best in music, fashion, design and lifestyle.

For its’ seventh season the karma chameleon Culture Club continues to explore new musical horizons and is more than ever equipped for a groundbreaking and very promising new era.

A new age dawns…

Satisfied? Now down to the details.

-contest starts Monday April 20th and runs until Monday May 4th

-the theme will be “Do You Know Where Your Teenager Is At 5 O’Clock In The Morning?”, not the easiest theme, but I know you guys can nail it.

-all submissions will go to the “CultureClub” contest category on laFraise EU which will be up on Monday 20th

-1 winner will be selected to win 1500 Euros (depending on the quality more may be selected, it’s up to you guys!)

Confused? Need inspiration? Checkout a few of the campaign posters.

Good luck!

Well it’s about time another sponsored contest rolled around. This time it’s with BloodSweatVector which many of you are familiar with.

A brief little history of BSV is as follows: BloodSweatVector (BSV) was founded in October of 2008 by Jared Nickerson and Brad Mahaffey. BSV brings together some of the highest regarded vector artists in the world, posting their news, updates, releases, and recommendations to all of you readers. Authors (the artists) posting on this site have been specifically invited to be a part of BSV due to the respect they garner in the vector community. Each entry is from the artists themselves, providing the news directly to you via BSV.

Now to the details.

The theme will be “RE-ANIMATION”. Possible ideas include: revival of vintage cartoons, zombies, 1950s B-Movies etc.

Prize include 1500 Euros, a feature and interview on BSV along with an official invite to become a member.

Contest runs from Monday March 23rd-April 6th

Good luck guys!!

Well guys we have a new contest for you, and this one should be pretty interesting. The contest is called “No Limit” which literally means in this case that you can use any sort of printing techniques, any arrangement of colours, anything really to create your design. The print area is 385 x 485 mm (at 200dpi this is about 3000 x 3800 pixels. There is no specific theme. One catch though, because of the Digital Direct Process we are going to use, for now the design has to be on a White Tshirt.

We’ll pick 1 winner at 1500 Euros.

Contest runs from Monday March 9th (today) to Monday March 23rd.

The rest is up to you!

Breakdown:

-385×485mm (3000 x 3800 pixels, raster or vector CMYK)

-no theme

-must be on a white tshirt

-1 winner at 1500 Euros

-March 9th-23rd

Good luck laFraisians.

Well it’s contest time again and this time we have something a little different for you.

This will be our first “Artist Sponsored” contest and who better to have it with than the infamous 123klan

123klan is made up of founders Scien & Klor. “Hitting streets with style and talent since 1989 for Scien and 1992 for Mrs Klor.”
Also known as “vector chefs”, Scien and Klor have cooked some outstanding meals for clients such as: Nike, Ecko, Zoo-York, Adidas, Carharrt, Sony PSP, Wired magazine, Stussy, Majestic Athletics and Johnny Cupcakes to name a few. Today, the French couple and proud parents now based in Montreal Canada, are still touring the world and hitting what or who ever’s fronting them, always with style and arrogance like Bonnie & Klyde.

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Now of course we’ll have 1 winner who will get 1500 Euros and a prize pack of 123klan goodies from 123klan themselves. Their design will also be printed on a limited run of 500 tees available exclusively through laFraise.

(The winning design will be hand picked by 123klan themselves.)

The theme, well it’s “MASCOTS“. Confused? Try these for examples:

So the breakdown:

-contest begins Monday Feb 23rd and ends Monday March 9th

-theme is “Mascots“

-1 winner at 1500 Euros and 123klan swag

-all submissions go to the “123klan” category on laFraise

-submissions are to only be submitted to the “123klan” category, and no other laFraise category

Good luck guys!!

Well it’s time for another fresh new contest, this time it’s with the
wonderful culture/art/news website “Thunder Chunky“.
Here is some more info. on Thunder Chunky before I continue:

Thunder Chunky has been around since 2003 and is a bit of a hybrid-mix of
interviews, articles and collaborative projects. Based in Liverpool UK,
but globally-focussed, our simple aim is to keep all you people out there
amused and interested for as long as we can before you find something
genuinely important to do with your day.

Over the years we’ve been lucky enough to speak to some of our heroes in
the design & illustration field such as TADO, Jeremyville, Jon Burgerman,
James Jean, Kyle Cooper, TBFH… and many more besides that! And being
able to bring some of those artists in to some of the projects we run,
such as the set of prints we did recently, is particularly great.

We try our best to give all those up-and-coming artists out there a
platform to showcase and strut their stuff and it’s always exciting when
something totally fresh and new lands on our doormat or in our inbox.

You really can never have enough illustration!
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So now that you know who TC is, let me break down the contest for you:
-Submissions start Monday Jan 26th on the EU site
-The theme is “T” and whatever you translate that into
-1 winner will be selected to receive 1500 Euros, a grab bag of prints from
Thunder Chunky and their design will be printed on a limited run of 500
tees.
-Runner ups will also be receving a nice little assortment of treats from
Thunder Chunky
-Contest runs from Jan 26th to Feb 9th

Good luck guys!!