The tiny hole on top of disposable coffee cups isn't there by mistake. In fact, it's a very important design feature that makes for better sipping.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The humble coffee lid doesn’t get much attention, unless you’re in the process of sloshing hot coffee all over yourself. But those sippable to-go cup lids are more complicated than you think. “The ...

Q: I have been reading the debate about the safety of coffee-cup lids. One contributor called the controversy much ado about nothing. I hate to bear the bad news, but it is true that you could get ...

The architects Louise Harpman and Scott Specht began collecting takeout-coffee lids when they were in college, in the nineteen-eighties, and continued the practice as graduate students at Yale.