Monday, 31 March 2008

Starbucks Mug Japan 2008

My collection of Starbucks mugs has been growing quite a bit since I last posted about it. One of the mugs I've gotten this year has been the Japan 2008 Starbucks mug which I grabbed on Boxing Day (the day it came out). As usual it sold out days after it's release.



It has a really nice design on it featuring some Japanese influenced artwork instead of the American pop art that's normally on a Starbucks mug. The year "2008" is also written in Japanese. Nice!

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Thursday, 15 February 2007

Starbucks Mug: Sakura 2007

I noticed last year that there was a special sakura (cherry blossom) Starbucks mug design for sale but waited too damn long to buy it and have regretted it ever since. So today when I saw the 2007 sakura design (I guess it's a new yearly thing for the sakura obsessed Japanese collector) I immediately grabbed one. Luckily pay day was this week!

As with the Japanese Kit Kat flavours, I've decided, starting with this mug, to blog about my growing collection of Japanese Starbucks mugs! The mugs in Japan have such interesting designs (a definite step up from the craptacular Australian ones that look like a high school art class screen print job) and almost always a unique Japanese artistic influence.

This mug is interesting in that while city themed mugs (such as the Yokohama, Kyoto and Tokyo mugs) are all the standard Starbucks mugs size and shape, this one has a rounder handle and opens up more at the top.

The design is a vibrant collage of white and pink sakura flowers over a blurred bluish-green background. Very impressionistic.

An extra touch that I like is the group of small pink sakura petals on the inside of the mug. Kawaii!

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