The Starbucks Cup Urn

Because an urn is such a personal type of memorial for your loved one's cremains, you want to make sure you can honor their life with its design. The best way to do that is to consider the nearly unlimited options offered by a 3D-printed custom urn, so you can design something that's exactly how you want to remember them.

About the Starbucks Cup Urn

This urn was a custom Starbucks drink cup for a customer who was honoring her son. She wanted the cup to look as realistic as it could, including the logo, color choices, overall design, and even the little boxes to mark down information about the drink. Her son's name was Joseph, and the engraving on this urn included the line "A Golden Cup of Joe" to acknowledge his vibrancy in life while keeping the coffee theme.

Inspiration

Our customer's son was a huge Starbucks fan and an avid coffee drinker, so it seemed only fitting that she would have an urn made for him that represented his enjoyment of coffee and Starbucks. His image was added to the top of the cup's lid, which opens to insert the ashes. Realism was the goal for this urn.

Process

Creating the Model

We use a number of different computer software programs for the 3D modeling of our custom urns. This takes time, especially when there are a lot of specifics or fine details to consider. Once all the modeling is done we get customer approval, and then the model goes to the printer.

Printing

The size of the urn and the complexity of the detail involved will determine how long it takes to print it, with the process taking as long as 24 hours in some cases. For this print it didn't take as long, as most of the detail work is in the painting.

Post-Printing Process

Once the printing is done, we move on to clean-up work to remove any small imperfections from the print process. The print also has to harden, and it goes through a quality check as part of our commitment to ensuring that it looks just right.

Painting

All our 3D custom urns are painted in-house, and it's our goal to make them look just the way the customer wants. For this particular urn the goal was realism, as the customer wanted it to be as accurate to a real Starbucks cup as possible. We focused on the perfect shade of green and recreating cup details such as the check boxes for drink options.

Final Touches

Between paint detail, engraving options, stickers, and more, we're able to make just about anything. The final touches that went into this urn really made it look like it came straight out of Starbucks, right down to the logo and drink options. Finally, it was time to send the urn to our customer.

Urn Details

Gallery

This urn's details mirror a Starbucks paper cup, with an extra inscription to honor the loved one interred within. At eight inches tall and five inches in diameter, it proudly eclipses the size of a venti Starbucks cup. 

Custom 3D-Printed Urns at In the Light Urns

If you're looking to honor a loved one through a 3D-printed custom urn, we're here to help make that easier for you. Getting in touch with us is the first step toward finding a unique way to memorialize your loved one and what mattered to them in life. With a custom urn, you can always remember someone you lost.

We can help you order your custom, 3D-printed urn today, and will get started on the design and modeling of it right away. You can send us pictures of what you want or describe your idea, and we'll help you get the urn that meets your needs and fits what was important to your loved one during their life.

Reach out to us today at In The Light Urns, and our compassionate staff and quality graphics department will work together to with you on the details of the custom urn you want. We're here to ensure you get an urn that truly honors your loved one.