Artist Statement

My piece is on Starbucks. I spend a lot of time here, so I created two different Starbucks. The assignment was to take a public place and change something about it that would impact the people who go there. My piece was focused on how every Starbucks you visit looks exactly the same. To make a strong impact I decided that my Starbucks would each be designed differently. To make my piece even better I came up with a real reason Starbucks might do this. There are many, many student designers out there who need jobs and Starbucks could have a student designer design their own Starbucks. This way students would be given jobs, customers will be intrigued to see each Starbucks and if they like the design they can hire the designer themselves.

To represent this I made two different starbucks that are both very similar and different. I created one as a modern, crazy, eccentric starbucks and another as an outdoors kind of place. To give the full effect the outdoors one is designed to look like a treehouse. The eccentric Starbucks was inspired by the dance floor. I thought about how the artist, Piotr Uklanski, made something you wouldnÅ't expect to see in a museum. I put in couch type chairs and crazy floor lamps you wouldnÅ't normally find in a Starbucks.