Photo: Starbucks Coffee Company
Stanley Hainsworth is Vice-President global creative for Starbucks Coffee Company, which, in addition to selling coffee, markets music, books and movies in Starbucks shops, on its web site, and in partnership with iTUNES and XM radio. The company also hosts Starbucks Salons, “ nomadic interactive coffeehouses” which feature gallery and performance spaces—the first opened in Park City, Utah, in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival—that travel from city to city across the United States.
According to Hainsworth’s company bio, “Stanley grew up in a small town in Western Kentucky, right between Possum Trot and Monkey’s Eyebrow, which taught him an appreciation for multiple retail options. After pursuing an acting career for some years he decided that he would apply all he’d learned to a new trade where he would at least still be free to explore multiple facial hair options.
“After several years at Nike as a Creative Director where he worked on everything from hangtags to annual reports to the Olympics, he decided to embark on an adventure in Denmark at the Lego Company as their Global Creative Director. After a total visual overhaul of the Lego brand from top to bottom, including packaging, the web, retail and brand stores, he heeded the call to return to the states where he thought it would be fun to work for a company named after the first mate in Moby Dick – Starbucks. And there he now resides, in the upper left hand corner of the U.S., as their vp, global creative, learning more about the mighty coffee bean than he ever thought possible.”
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www.hearmusic.com
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A recent Starbucks offering: Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Home. |
Starbucks’ Hear Music initiative. |
Mitch Albom’s book and interview on Ellen at Starbucks.com. |
Starbucks’ Akeelah and the Bee promotion. |
Starbucks introduces its salon in New York. |
Starbucks’ traveling gallery / performance space / salon. |
Symposium C6 runs concurrent with 