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If you’re a frequent takeout coffee drinker (and even if you’re not, for that matter), you’ll likely have noticed that the plastic lids of takeout cups typically have not one, but two holes. One of ...

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 ...

What Harpman calls the true beginning of the reusable lid. Image courtesy of Google Patents. Under Louise Harpman’s bed, in acid-free boxes, there are superior double-walled, climate-controlled and UV ...

Compared to a good old fashioned coffee cup, drinking from a paper cup with a plastic lid can leave a lot to be desired, with that small stream of coffee flowing through that tiny hole. And then you ...

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 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.

For some McDonald's fans in the U.K., coffee lids are saving them from their paper-straw nightmare. Fed up with the fast-food chain’s new straws, customers at some U.K. locations have begun asking for ...