We’ve all been there. You have a cup of hot coffee in a paper to-go cup with a lid, but when you go to take a sip the contraption betrays your trust and you spill hot liquid on yourself. Design is ...

The common point between designer Louise Harpman and architect Scott Specht is "coffee truck", but the two do not just like to drink coffee, they are a collector of a coffee cup lid Being unique is ...

As you sip your afternoon pick-me-up, consider Steven Heller’s take on the humble Solo Traveler, aka the coffee lid. It’s ubiquitous, it’s barely noticeable, it’s… Freudian? The Solo Traveler lid is a ...

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 ...

For all our crippling caffeine addictions, the disposable coffee cup is a highly imperfect art at best. Seattle-based company Vaporpath wants to change that with a total coffee cup lid overhaul. But ...

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 ...