Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture (A design and field guide from the world’s largest collection of disposable coffee lids)
September 25, 2019 - Comment
A fascinating design history and field guide to one of modern life’s everyday conveniences, with 200 full close-up photographs and patent designs.
A fun look at how the genius of design is often hidden in plain sight. Ever wonder about how everyday objects come to look the way they do? The disposable coffee lid is a design paradox of the modern era. It must simultaneously open and close to allow for drinking on the go while protecting against unwanted spillage. See your coffee cup lid for what it really is: a magical design artifact that contains fascinating variations.
The premier guide for take-out coffee drinkers everywhere – Learn more about the mechanics behind your morning cup of joe. Impress and stump the coffee-aficionados in your life with your expansive knowledge of slosh-drainage systems, ergonomic drink apertures, foam accommodation techniques, and sensory enhancement features.
From the world’s largest coffee lid collection – Louise Harpman and Scott Specht have collected over 550 of these triumphs of industrial design for decades, creating what Smithsonian magazine calls “the world’s largest collection of coffee cup lids.”
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Get to know your coffee lids. This is a really fun book about something many of us use every day but never give a second thought to. I particularly enjoyed looking at the included patent drawings which elegantly show the careful consideration that designers put into these simple, often unnoticed, objects. Friends tend to pick up the book and thumb through it when they see it sitting out. Highly recommend!
Art Format Books get lost and forgotten in the Kindle I purchased this for Kindle. The book itself is 5 star. But I do not casually pick up my kindle to browse like I would if I purchased the real coffee table version. So if you have the room and money,buy the paper version.Is this art? It is a nice study in the design of a common and utilitarian item. The lid is a user interface and is worth a bit of study. ….
Lids Call the Whole Thing Off Anybody who voluntarily pays fifteen dollars for a book about coffee lids should neither admit it nor complain about it. Iâm doing it anyway.What I got for my money was 280 photos and diagrams of coffee lids, hyphenated here and there by micro doses of narrative. The only part that actually moved me was that people spend whole sections of their limited time on Earth devoted to lid improvement. Why?The answer steaming from the book seems to be that modern people are too…