Welcome to your first Starbucks barista art contest at StarbucksMelody.com. In a previous blog entry, I featured artwork drawn by a downtown Seattle barista. I’m really convinced that there has to be a lot more of this hidden wonderful talent in the Starbucks stores. I’m on a mission to find it. That’s the goal of this contest. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE AN ARTIST OR A BARISTA TO PARTICIPATE: All you have to do is go snap a photograph of barista-created art and follow the rules listed below!
In order to make the contest worthwhile and entice people to join in, the prizes will be FOUR grand prize winners, each winning a $50.00 Starbucks gift card. But there are a lot of rules!! Please read carefully!
All the rules are numbered 1 through 20 below:
- All entrants must be in the United States or Canada or the UK.
- No barista artwork featured can be produced with stencils.
- All art work must have been on display inside a Starbucks store within the past 90 days of this blog entry.
- The art work must be on a standard Starbucks chalkboard. This is not an oil-painting, or watercolor or some other kind of art contest.
- All entry photographs become property of StarbucksMelody.com, and you agree that they may be featured in a future blog post at StarbucksMelody.com.
- All entries must be received no later than 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) on Monday, March 1st, 2010.
- All entrants must be over 18.
- In the event that the same art gets photographed twice by two different people, the person who submits it to me first in time is credited with the entry, and the later in time entry is void ab initio.
- Enter by emailing me a photograph of the artwork at Sbux206@StarbucksMelody.com.
- All email entries must include a first and last name, and a mailing address for a prize in case you’re a winner.
- IF, you have a twitter profile, please include that in the email too.
- No entry can be a photograph smaller than 200 x 200.
- All entries must be a “jpg” file format type.
- All entries must include the store information (store address, and store number too if possible) where the art work is on display currently.
- If the person submitting the entry is the barista who did the artwork, please speak up and say so!
- You may submit more than one entry.
- Winners will be picked entirely subjectively by “Starbucks Melody” deciding what she likes best.
- Again, no stencil art!
- No person may win more than one $50 gift certificate.
- Void where prohibited by law.
Good luck! This may be an experiment in terror! We’ll see how it goes!! Hopefully people will join in. Also, please spread the word of this great contest! Those are generous prizes!
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Great idea Melody, I’m sure you will get some gems!
Oh, how fun! I work at store #788 and am usually the one to draw the signs, but I usually use stencils for at least the basic outline of cup shapes. I’ll have to see if my manager will let me do some freehand work.
I’m just curious, where would the be prohibited by law? LOL
Great one! but i’m a canuck…but i’m really excited to see the artwork!
@Akarisame – When I was writing out the contest rules, I was worried that if I sent a $50 Starbucks Gift Card overseas it would be a useless prize. It might not be honored at the Starbucks, and wrong currency. But is that true for Canada? Will a $50 gift card work in Canada??
yup it’ll work and depending on the exchange it’s sometimes more…;) or some times less
this only works with U.S. and Canada that it exchanges automatically in the POS
that “smile” face looks so pathetic luc…I was told they work anywhere. One of our Barista’s brought one back from australia and uses it to this day (reloading) and it converts it as well
I wish I got a better picture of this <<
Okay I have amended the rules to open it up to Canada!
WOOT WOOT I only hope *m* hasn’t erased her amazing free hand casi cielo board, then she won’t feel like all the work was for nothing (free hand and now we’re out!)
i’ll be there. (here, soon)
@Star – The one that usually comes up is Rhode Island. If the total of the prizes is $500 or over you have to register with the Secretary of State…and pay a $150 filing fee. Some states may have age restrictions. It can get complicated pretty quickly. We don’t want to have to slip Melody a file in a vente drink.
They’re certainly not my work and I’m certainly not entering these into the contest, but in case people had missed the Admiral Ackbar “It’s A Frap!” or others, check this place out.
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/12/i_have_the_feeling_geeks_work.php
(Reply to Corvex Corvidae) – That’s an interesting link. I’m particularly impressed with the Bert and Ernie drawing, but “Frappuccino” is misspelled!
Perhaps, but the references and humor is right up my alley. I can forgive the spelling mistake for working in internet memes.
Some of this art is nice to look at and some not so much.
great idea for a competition, look forward to seeing the results!
yea…personally I’d say that such art would turn more people off than on. The idea is to add to the coffee experience and make ALL feel comfortable and at ease, drawn in. Just my opinion though.
Some of that artwork can be pretty amazing. There’s Metropolitan Market in West Seattle that has some awesome chalk art.
Looking forward to seeing what people send in!
Melody… I left a present for you with Molly. Sorry we didn’t get to talk. Larry A
Hi! As a partner at store #3372 and an artist, I am so excited about this! I do all the chalkboard art for my store and I photograph each for my portfolio so I’m curious: do I have to enter one that is currently being displayed in my store or could it be one that I’ve done in the past? Thank-you so much for doing this and can’t wait to see all the great artwork!
This is a great idea! There are so many starving artists that work at starbucks. So, I’m going to hit my favorite stores and see what I can find!
(Reply to CoffeeLovesArt) – Hi there! That’s a great question! I didn’t think of that at all. Considering how fast that the art changes (every promo season) I don’t think it necessarily has to be currently on display. If you can satisfy all the conditions listed above (name the store, a photograph bigger than 200 x 200, etc…) I think it would be fair to allow any art work within the past 90 days. I don’t want it to be too old, so I think it has to be a tight range. Any art work within the past 90 days.
I need to still make that clear above too.
Thanks so much! Can’t wait to enter!
Melody, do the entries need to be current? I have some pictures of board art I’ve done in the past that I liked, but the current board is quite boring.
Someone else above us asked almost the same question (which I should have thought of when I started this contest!). I told her that the artwork has to have been displayed within the past 90 days of this contest, and to be fair, I’m going to give you the same answer.
I’m not sure how I can totally enforce that. I mean if I get submissions that are chalkboard art of Gazebo Blend, I’m pretty sure I’ll know that is not current. I might have to figure out this as I go along!
Darn! My two best-loved signs were for Thanksgiving Blend and Anniversary, so they’re outside the date. Oh well! I still think this is an amazing idea.
I can’t wait to see the other entries, and I’m sorry for not reading the earlier posts to see the answer to my question, oops.
This is a cool idea! I hope I can find some good Starbucks chalkboard art to submit!
Still looking for some art!
Hey Melody, I know the contest ends tomorrow, but just wondering if you will announce the winners tomorrow as well, or you probably need some time to decide? Thanks!
(Reply to @CoffeeLovesArt) – I think this blog post of mine is one of the examples of Melody does crazy things. There is no way I will have a blog post put together by tomorrow. It might be next weekend. I got about 19 to 20 entries with an average of 2 to 3 images per entry. Oh no. That’s like close to 60 images to resize, upload one by one. I seriously need an assistant. And it’s going to be one busy blog post. I hope I’m mistaken at the number but I’m suddenly overwhelmed.