Kacie's Plainfield Krema collaboration opened the door to Tinley Park. The partnership was familiar, but the illustration needed its own landmarks and structures so customers would see their town rather than a repeated coffee shop formula.
Details in the drawing
The wraparound artwork includes Oak Park Avenue Station, Historic Downtown Tinley, Vogt Visual Arts Center and Zabrocki Plaza. Each is part of the place this mug was drawn to remember.
See the finished mug
Explore the artwork and find current shop information on The Tinley Park Mug page. The mug is carried through Krema Coffee; please check the mug page or contact the shop before making a special trip.
A gift idea with a real place behind it
For a friend who has moved away, the familiar names in the artwork do the work: Oak Park Avenue Station and Historic Downtown Tinley are reminders of an actual place. Include a note naming the moment you shared there, or ask which detail they noticed first when you give it to them.
The shop and the coffee
Krema roasts its own small-batch coffee and has grown beyond its original Plainfield collaboration with Ashley. The Tinley Park Mug is another chapter in that relationship; a bag of Krema beans and the town drawing make a gift rooted in the same local partner. Read Krema Coffee Roasters’s own story for its current coffee offerings.
Ashley Ann