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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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Product Description 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." Review "There's something poignant about designing a mass-produced object heading directly for the trash can. Like most quotidian artifacts of our era, the disposable coffee cup lid fulfills its purpose when it's forgettable but effective. And as we discover in this short, deft, caffeinated volume, the quest for perfection-for spill-proof sublimity-is far from over." - Caroline Baumann, Director, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum "This is a far, far deeper dive than other mortals have ever dared into the aesthetics and industrial, cultural, and design history of the all-too-human struggle to prevent hot coffee from sloshing in unwelcome ways." - Mark Singer, The New Yorker "There has been a study or two about lids. But this is the most incisive lido-pedia I've seen, with facts galore to talk about with your favorite barista. Little would you suspect that so much high technology goes into making the perfect lid or how many patents exist for so many of them. Doubtless every pucker and puncture has a purpose, and if you've ever wondered what the function is, you will have a good time flipping through the facts and photos of some exquisite lids that these lid-ficianos have assembled." - Daily Heller/Printmag.com "Proving there is magic in the everyday, architects Louise Harpman and Scott Specht have provided us with a field guide to lids for take-out coffee. After perusing the book, it's impossible to look at the humble disposables the same way again." - Interior Design "A quirky look at the development and design of the now-ubiquitous lid." - Parade "Once you start thinking and learning about design, it changes the way you see everything. Coffee Lids is the perfect encapsulation of this, full of close-up photographs and patent drawings that show how this everyday object is a true work of functional art." - BuzzFeed "From slits and slots to slosh drainage systems and condiment capsules, this magical little book is a tour de force of observational awareness, sitting squarely at the nexus of meaning, making, and material culture. Should be required reading for every barista on the planet." - Jessica Helfand, Design Observer "A thousand years from now, when alien anthropologists attempt to understand the homo caffeinatus of late modernity, they will find no better guide than this absorbing, beautiful book. The many technical solutions for transforming the leisurely, social act of drinking coffee into a mechanism by which caffeine could be delivered into the central nervous systems of today's rushed citizens will no doubt make our future visitors gasp at the absurd ingenuity of the primate that once ruled this planet." - Sina Najafi, Editor in Chief, Cabinet magazine "A close examination of everyday, even mundane objects can be the starting point fo
