This year we have decided to get to know you more, especially from the non designer side. Let’s start with Mylène our strawberry of the year 2011 , who is she, what does she like about our t-shirt?

Hi Mylène,

Introduce yourself in a few sentences, where do you come from and what do you do?
I am working on a masters in Human Resources in Lyon. I come from a small village between the Mountains in Savoie and the plains of Ain.

How long have you known laFraise and how did you hear about it? What do you like about it?
I think I have known laFraise for about 5 years and I do not remember how I found out about it. Maybe when I was looking for shops with limited edition shirts – and that is what I like at laFraise. I hate standing across from someone with the same look, and I worship t-shirts with messages.

What are your hobbies, passions and interests?
I took criminology courses from January to July last year, it had nothing to do with Human Resources but with HR it is about paying the bills and my interest in criminology is more of a passion. I am really interested in criminal affairs and news items. For a while I practiced shooting but I also love music and cinema.

Among all your laFraise shirts, what are your top 3?
“Spot 7 differences” at first of course. This one made me win twice for the photo of the month!!!! “Lighting bird” makes me dream and “le penseur” with the Rubik’s Cube … was totally made for me!

Who is your favourite designer at laFraise?
I love what Massala.K does (and thanks to you I now have an autograph of his, I’m happy!)

What are your expectations this year?
I’m calling for help! There was a submission with a goldfish and with some incoherences in the design and a friend of mine and I tried to explain to the designer what went wrong on this design. There are also a lot of fish designs at the moment and maybe the designer got scared but I wish this design would be submitted again, so if you are reading and recognize yourself, please I want it… This is an SOS! I expect more nice shirt designs from you, currently I have been less interested in shirts because I do not like the colour of the shirt or I do not like the design and I must say that I hate the colour green.

What would you be if you were:
A flower: A carnivorous plant. I am nice but do not mess with me!
An animal: A chameleon because I know how to adapt myself.
A celebrity (Dead or alive): Beethoven: just for the pride of having written Moonlight Sonata which is my favourite classical piece.
A colour: Blue
A music genre: Rock – Need some movement -
A shirt colour: Blue

A last word?
A kiss to all of you who made me as the strawberry of the year by voting with me! Love you guys!

PRINTS

Dragon donjon by gums

Self defense by Kreadid

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Second place: 1 free t-shirt

Scratch the universe by Cnatch

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Third place: 1300 brouzoufs

Love is dangerous by javierv007

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Congrats to the winners and thanks to all participants!

Hello, salut and hallo to all laFraise Fans out there!

After a loooong break, there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. The German blog will be re-opened to our community and filled with exciting posts and interesting topics. This leads me to introduce myself as the new little strawberry, at least that’s how my colleagues introduced me to the rest of the crew ;-)

My name Is Katinka, I am 27 years old, originally from Frankfurt/Main and moved to Berlin for study reasons. For more than two years I can proudly name myself a Berlin-girl and since more than three months I am a happy employee of the laFraise team. I usually watch “Tatort” on Sundays, even though most of the time I dislike the stories, I like drinking a glass of wine and doing sports, at least to salve my conscience.

I love Berlin, I love Pasta and I love laFraise.

Having said this: A happy, funny, colorful and exciting new year 2012 to all of you with lots of interesting blog-posts on the re-opened German laFraise blog!

Katinka from laFraise

PRINTS

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Marilyn’s Ghost by Wirdou

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unfinished clean-up by ifanknight

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2nd place

lumberjack by vinsse

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3rd place

Hi Mr. Tea by javierv007

Thanks to all participants for your great job and congrats to the winners !

PRINTS

Bad joke by Mak2

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Happy feet by buyo18

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Camera obscura by Malo_And_The_Whale

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Escape shoes by eown

Super toaster by Pasquéoz

A fun shirt for superheroes, we have asked for more to Pasquéoz !

Hi Pasqueoz, nice to see you again!
Hi, the same to you!

What is the story behind “Free toaster” and how did you get the idea? Why a superhero toaster?

I will try to schematize all of this

2007: Fell in love in the kitchen
2011: Restoration and changes … we changed everything from the fridge to microwave to electrical appliances and well the toaster … and what does a toaster do all alone in the kitchen all day long? It becomes a superhero of course!!

So superhero + toaster = Toaster the hero … well no super toaster … a more glamorous name That’s the story, did you get it?

And who is your favorite hero?
Superman! For simple and obvious reasons Underpants / Pento© / and an incredible ability to hide his cape under his jeans when he is in Clark modus

What do you think about the grandma superhero project “Mamika” whose grandmother was shot by grandson and Sacha Goldberger?

I guess they had lots of fun doing it, him and his grandmother, and I kind of like it!

Could you please draw a snowberry?
What about this?

And, you Nath, could you draw US a snowberry?

I am not a designer, could have taken more time to do something better but challenge accepted :-)

Requiem for a tree by MlleKarensac

A music t-shirt designed by MlleKarensac. Let her explain her design.

Hello Mlle Karensac, could you please introduce to the members of the community who don’t know you? How did you start into graphic design and why?

Hi laFraise! Happy to be here. I’m Camille Gautier, 21 years old, I live in Bordeaux and I’m doing a Masters in architecture. I’ve always loved drawing and my school notebooks are the proof of it. I found out about the contest more than a year ago and did it for fun. I didn’t expect to be selected, so I am very grateful and is motivating for the future. I’m still not the best with drawing and even less with informatics, so when I draw it looks like a makeshift job 

What is the story of “Requiem for a tree” and how did the idea come to you?

The story is simple: The city is spreading and that leaves no place anymore for forests, only for one tree which was spared and becomes the symbol of the drama. Animals that used to live in the forest get together and play a requiem as homage to it. When I saw Princess Monoke for the tenth time, I got the idea and I wanted to draw something in relation to respect for nature and the problem of deforestation. And if you look closely, there is a hidden kodama in the leaves.

Do you like music and what kind of music makes you feel creative?

I love music like everybody else and at the moment I’m listening to Sufjans Stevens’ album “The age of adz”. In general I listen to electro, classical and rock music.

City or countryside?

It’s hard to choose, I would say a city not too far away from the countryside, so that I can enjoy a bit both.

Could you please draw a snowberry?

PRINTS

Nyctophobie by Multicrass’ and Graetz

This shirt is an art concept by Arsène

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Second place: 1 free t-shirt

Bonzai by gums

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Third place: 1300 brouzoufs

Hot bath by Chicharo

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Congrats to the winners and thanks to all participants!