Starbucks Planner 2013 Philippines
It’s that time of the year again when Starbucks Philippines releases their annual Starbucks Planners. Now on it’s 10th year, the Starbucks Planner 2013 set comes in 3 symbolically fiber leather cover colors representing their brand – black, white, and green. If you’d notice, it’s the 3 colors of their continually evolving logo.
This year’s theme of the limited edition Starbucks Philippines 2013 Planner is “Moments of Connection.†They chose to highlight this throughout the planner to emphasize shared moments over coffee as a form of genuine connection to uplift someone’s day.
Inside Pages: First Calendar Month – January
Here, I have also compiled 13 reasons why you should get the Starbucks 2013 Planner:
1. White & Green Covers
Apple aficionados and La Sallites would rave about this, no doubt. The white one will surely complement my white iPad and imaginary white iPhone. The Starbucks La Salle branch along Taft Avenue would surely always run out of the green one.
Although I found the blackl one generic, it’s for the ‘classic‘ lovers who want to keep it low, plain, and simple. The white and green ones just stand out, they are for the creative-types who doesn’t mind the extra attention…like me. LOL
Starbucks Planner 2013: Green, White, Black
2. Textured Pattern Cover
Front-facing, the jagged-polygons / star-like pattern on the cover start from the left fading to right which lends a textured feel while not leaving the impression of being overly designed nor too plain, externally. Two thumbs up for this.
Textured Planner Cover
3. Environment-Friendly & Inside Cover Flow Design
The external pattern was intrinsically reiterated on the first page upon opening. It reminds us of the environment-conscious efforts of Starbucks traditional in their planners every year. The same goes for this year’s planners which are 70% made of recycled materials.
4. Reusable Notebook Cover (Refills maybe?)
Awesome is awesome. I never thought SBX would make a planner with a reusable cover like this. I only see plastic reusable notebook covers in standard bookstores. But Starbucks was able to consider about making this awesomely designed covers (refer to reasons #1 & #2) actually reusable.
Reusable Planner Cover: Notice the attachments of the paper notebook and the cover in the photo.
I’m just not sure if this is a preemptive move in preparation for Starbucks Planners 2014. Maybe the future ones would even be more environment-friendly as refills? I don’t know, this is just a hunch. 😛
5. Charity: SparkHope
Customary as well with the journal is a charity beneficiary for the project. Every redeemed Starbucks Planner 2013 comes a donation for the children of SparkHope – an early childhood care and development program. It’s Christmas season after all and it would be great to be of help with every sip of your favorite coffee.
Charity beneficiary: SparkHope
6. Weekly and Monthly Calendars
Of course, since it’s a planner, there are calendars (lol). Weekly and monthly calendars are there for you to actually fill and somehow organize your life schedule beyond just lugging around these awesome planners.
7. “Moments of Connectionâ€
In line with their “Moments of Connection†theme, inspiring ‘connection‘ notes are placed in random dates to remind the planner aficionado to give a friend a pat at the back or to say ‘hi’ to a relative.
“Moments of Connection”
8. Post It notes, double adhesives & Postcards
To further enhance reason #7, built-in post-it notes and postcards are inserted in different months to share special thoughts and moments with someone you care for. It’s similar to your Facebook like and share button, only offline. 😛
Make an effort to make that someone feel extra special by giving him or her something non-digital (this reminder goes for me as well). 🙂
Post-Its & Postcards
9. Magnet Lock
I hate buttons for binders, they usually don’t last long and easily gives up to wear-and-tear even before the whole year is over. Solution – magnets! It makes that interesting tapping sound as well. Tap!
(See top photo)
10. Magnetic Bookmark
Remember the previous Starbucks Planner bookmarks with strings to divide the page? This year, they’re out. Magnet bookmarks are in. It’s a back-to-back hot beverage single-attached magnetic bookmark. However, since it’s basically two magnets, they tend to be too tight sometimes.
Magnetic Bookmark
If magnetic bookmarks are not your thing, you can cut it and viola, you have two Starbucks ref magnets! 🙂
11. Coupons
They’re calling them “kindness cards” this year. Call it whatever you want – freebies, discounts cards, promos, coupons!
Starbucks Planner 2013 Coupons
12. More Coupons
As they say, you can never have enough. So, you have a second page of more “kindness cards!”
More Freebie Coupons
13. Flip Book Style
Again, awesome is awesome, the inside pages have a Starbucks cup on the lower right side which starts empty in January and fills-up through the days and pages to a fully-filled beverage by December! An instant Flip Book!
Although I thought having the reverse would be more cute depicting ‘time running out‘, mine is a pessimistic way of looking at it. This one’s better, more positive. 🙂
Flip Book Pages
So how do you already have one of the 2013 Starbucks Planners? Click here to see how to get a Starbucks Planner 2013!
The 2013 Stamp Card which is more of a ‘paper’ than a card. 🙂
2013 Starbucks Planners
For my final verdict – the 2013 Starbucks Planners are the best Starbucks Planner set they have released in the Philippines in all 10 years. Reasons #1, #4, #10, and #13 are the major turn-ons for me which contributed to its minimalist and modern look. I love the green one best, followed by the white.
It’s 40 days before Christmas, and the nights are getting longer and colder here in the Philippines. The Starbucks Planner 2011 was introduced about two weeks ago at the Starbucks Christmas Cheers Party with the theme Stories are Gifts, Share,” held at 6750 in Makati City.
As the 8th of the Limited Edition Starbucks Coffee Planner in the Philippines, it was an instant hit as the customers started to fill their cards with stickers to avail of the free Starbucks Coffee Planner 2011 soon.
Cool Clean Stainless Steel
This Year’s Theme
This year, they are available in three (3) cover variants with each cover representing elements found in Starbucks stores; from Maroon Velvet Fabric, Cool Clean Stainless Steel and Stained Dark Wood Panels.
What’s Inside
Every month features a Philippine Starbucks store for their uniqueness and relevance to their community. The 14-month planner which extends from December 2010 to January 2012 highlights fourteen (14) Starbucks stores, giving customers a further feel of Starbucks as their third place.
How To Get One
Starbucks customers can get the Starbucks Christmas traditions planner promo card at the beginning of the Starbucks Christmas last November 3. One sticker will be given for each Starbucks beverage purchased. It only takes seventeen (17) stickers to bring home the coolest Starbucks planner ever. Customers need to accumulate nine (9) stickers from the Christmas beverage returning favorites; Peppermint Mocha, Praline Mocha and Toffee Nut Latte plus eight (8) stickers for core handcrafted beverages. Purchase of the Starbucks VIA Ready Brew 3-pack booklet can also earn customers one (1) sticker while the Starbucks VIA Ready Brew box of 12 will earn customers two (3) stickers.
Maroon Velvet Fabric
Moreover, every redemption comes with a donation to SparkHope – Starbucks flagship program for early childhood care and development in partnership with UNICEF.
Hovw To Get One from NomNom Club
It’s easy! You have two chances of winning by joining either the “Share Your Christmas Story Write-Up Contest” or the “Share Your Christmas Photo”.
Stained Dark Wood Panels
Share Your Christmas Story Write-Up Contest Mechanics (For the Writer In You)
- Write and share a story in your blog with the theme of “Sharing this Christmas Season”
— Your story should be within the length of 150 words to 350 words only.
— Either in the first or last paragraph, your story should mention the set of words “pinoy food recipes” which links to “http://NomNomClub.com”.
- Post about this contest in your Facebook wall with
— A link of this blogpost ( http://nomnomclub.com/others/2010/starbucks-planner-2011-contest-win/)Â and
—Â A tag of ‘@NomNom Club‘ Facebook Fanpage. Type “@” so your wall post will appear on NomNomClub FB page ( http://www.facebook.com/NomNomClub ).
—Â Make sure your FB share setting is for “Everyone“
- One entry per person only.
- Post the link of your blogpost on the comment section below.
- Criteria
* Creativity of Story – 25%
* Awesomeness / Impact – 20%
* Originality – 20%
* Relevance to Theme – 20%
* Grammar and Technicalities – 15%
Share Your Christmas Photo Mechanics (for the social media celebrity in you) 🙂
- Post any of your Christmas photo at Share Your Christmas Photo with NomNomClub.com (NomNom Club album) in Facebook.
- Post about this contest in your Facebook wall with
— a link of this blog post ( http://nomnomclub.com/others/2010/starbucks-planner-2011-contest-win/ )Â and
— Make sure your FB share setting is for “Everyone“
- Photo should be captioned with “Two Starbucks Planner 2011 Contest – Join & Win! Click http://nomnomclub.com/others/2010/starbucks-planner-2011-contest-win/” Check this example.
- The FB Photo entry with the most number of comments by December 15, 2010 wins.
- One entry per person only. Fictitious FB accounts will be disqualified.
- This last one is not required, but if you do this, you get an automatic +5 comment points: participants should place a relevant comment in this article – http://DigitalManila.blogspot.com/2010/11/samsung-nf-sf-qx-notebook-series.html. Place the link of your comment (of the Digital Manila article ) as the first comment of your photo entry in FB. To get the URL link of your Digital Manila comment, simply click on the ‘time link‘ beside your name.
How to get the URL link of your Digital Manila comment
Other Notes:
- Contest Duration will start November 15 and end December 15, 2010. Winners will be announced December 19, 2010 in this blog as a blogpost.
- Winners in both contests can choose which of the three Starbucks Planner variants they want from the Maroon Velvet Fabric, Cool Clean Stainless Steel, and Stained Stained Dark Wood Panels.
- Prizes will be couriered to anywhere in the Philippines with a valid address.
- Participants can join both contests and win independently.
- Winners will be contacted in their blog (for the story contest) and sent a personal message in their FB account (for the photo contest) and have until Dec 31, 2010 to acknowledge and respond. Otherwise, the prize will be given to the winning entry next in line.
Starbucks Planner 2011
Get ahead of the game and start joining now! Get the chance to win one, or two, Starbucks Planner 2011! Have a NomNom Starbucks Christmas!
