IMPROVING STARBUCKS!

Posted by tonymaticus at 12/31/2009 12:40 PM
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Like most everyone else I know in the Seattle area I am so depressed by the increasingly 'corporate' looks of Starbucks! So I tried to do my bit to make the look of my local Starbucks watering hole a little more fun. I therefore  created a monthly framed poster that the sympathetic baristas used to happily display on the wall for me. This succeeded very well for a few months until they were told to take down posters (to make space for the new digital screen that effectively does nothing for the community than sell more product!) One of the central themes to my poster campaigns were my "HAS-BEANS" cartoons... representing the coffee beans that Starbucks have rejected. Here's an example of a topical one I did at the time...

I've since submitted my ideas more formally to the www.mystarbucksidea.com website (entitled 'FUN COFFEE-RELATED CARTOONS ON THE WALLS' in the "ATMOSPHERE & LOCATIONS" section) in the hope that it might be more widely adopted. The "HAS-BEANS" cartoons were particularly popular among the locals, so perhaps if you have a mind for voting for my idea it might spread the word much further. Of course it probably won't get anywhere at all but it might at least provoke the corporate-minded Starbucks folks to think outside the box and make the Starbucks drinking experience more fun and not just a method of customer merchandizing! 

Here's another poster I produced, hand-drawn with hundreds of beans making up the image. 

(A free coffee for anyone who can say just how many?)


Tony   :^{)}=-


 

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