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Fluevog Creative contest winner 2011

Molly de St Andre is a world traveler who recently got married, and relocated to The Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. Molly and her husband Aurelien (who you may recall as the winner of the Paperboy contest) have started their own silk-screening company Moho, and will soon be driving from Afghanistan to France in a Volkswagen bus that they renovated from a scrap metal yard in Afghanistan. Along with being an extremely talented and skilled artist, Molly also teaches deaf children.

Fluevog Creative contest winner 2010

Aurélien de st André is a painter and graphic designer who has worked in many exotic locales including Kabul, Afghanistan, Île de la Reunion, Mauritius Island, Bangkok, Thailand and Istanbul, Turkey. He specializes in graphic design and developing visual identity for non profit and humanitarian organizations. He has designed for UNICEF, Emile Henry, The Aga Khan Foundation, The Asia Foundation, and the World Bank. Aurélien has worked as the art director for The Turquoise Mountain Foundation, Pardon Creation Clothing Company, and JWT Afghanistan.

The Advocate

Moving through their bright, one-room studio complete with a “drying” greenhouse, Aurel and Molly de St Andre remained, for the most part, silent as they worked. At one point, Aurel broke the monkish atmosphere, pointing to a rich array of paints in recycled plastic containers.

“Is it this green green or this yellow-green for the leaves?” he asked his wife, who was across the room silk-screening paper bags with a logo. The paint was a bright plum.

“The one with the yellow,” she said, not even looking up. Aurel nodded his head and dove into the green.