Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture (A design and field guide from the world’s largest collection of disposable coffee lids)

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If you are one of the vital 200 million Americans who drink coffee on a daily basis, you could have marveled at the ubiquitous plastic coffee cup lid, with its clever combination of indentations, protrusions, tabs, and score lines that may be pinched, pulled, pushed, punctured, and tucked to create an opening to sip from whilst also keeping a piping-hot liquid in its place. Louise Harpman and Scott Specht have collected these familiar triumphs of industrial design, in their many variations, for decades, creating what Smithsonian magazine calls the world’s largest collection of coffee cup lids. Along with oddly compelling close-up photographs, Harpman and Specht include lively field-guides to their classification system and patent drawings for a number of the most unique designs. This beautifully designed book will appeal to designers, coffee drinkers, and someone who delights in the small bits of humble genius that surround us on a daily basis. You can never look at your to-go coffee cup the same way again.

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