Once an afterthought, the portable coffee cup has become a piece of art. Coffee shops have long been synonymous with embracing art and the bleeding edge of culture. And following the rise in ...

Architect Louise Harpman believes that her collection of disposable coffee lids is the world’s largest. And given that it’s co-owned by one of the few people as enthusiastic about coffee lids as she ...

KeepCup, which claims to be “the world’s first barista standard reusable coffee cup,” has arrived on the shores of Italy, bringing to 32 the number of countries where the cup is now available.

Photographer Henry Hargreaves, whose fun and beautiful food-based country maps we featured recently, has spent the past year assembling a nicely curated collection of disposable coffee cups from cafés ...

The convenience plastic offers through single-use straws, water bottles and disposable coffee cups comes at no small cost to the environment, but we are growing more aware of the damage they cause.

Designer Peter Herman has created a concept for the all-paper disposable cup, made for coffee but perfectly viable for other liquids, that is set to blow the lid off of the industry – literally.

The Solo Traveler lid takes in to account human anatomy, ergonomics and functionality in a simple and elegant way. It is very hard to improve upon this form-follows-function design. The Solo Lid ...

A look at the origins of a ubiquitous but humble object—and why design experts and collectors are obsessed with it Take-out beverage lids collected in the '90s and early '00s, photographed by ...