Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture (A design and field guide from the world's largest collection of disposable coffee lids)

I purchased this for Kindle. The book itself is 5 star. But I do not casually pick up my kindle to browse like I would if I purchased the real coffee table version. So if you have the room and money,buy the paper version.Is this art? It is a nice study in the design of a common and utilitarian item. The lid is a user interface and is worth a bit of study. ....

This is a really fun book about something many of us use every day but never give a second thought to. I particularly enjoyed looking at the included patent drawings which elegantly show the careful consideration that designers put into these simple, often unnoticed, objects. Friends tend to pick up the book and thumb through it when they see it sitting out. Highly recommend!

Having read this on Kindle, I think the drawings were difficult to see on a device. I’m not sure they would have been better on paper but they were better when I looked at them on my iPad than on my Kindle device. Overall, an interesting concept book.

Great book! Really fun to look through and it looks beautiful! Great for coffee drinker.

This book is snappy, intelligent, informative, and lovely. The best conversation starter!

Welcome to world of peel, pinch, pucker and puncture coffee lids, nor forgetting mouth comfort, sealable coupling, rotational closures, slosh drainage and sip holes. Individually these lids are very disposable and not worth a second thought but like many other throwaway objects, paper clips or safety pins for example, gathered together they become fascinating because of the different designs. The two authors have a collection of over five hundred lids and several dozen are presented life-size in these pages.I thought it interesting that this is not a product sold to the public (and therefore doesn't need constant cosmetic changes to sell newer versions) but to the catering and beverage industry and has produced so many variations on a basic idea. There are four types of lid that either require a peel, pinch, pucker and puncture, pinch seems the least successful type with only two styles included, pucker types, where the user drinks from the lid rather than the rim of the cup, seems the most popular lid with lots of variations, including on page 182 a white lid with a small, bright red slider bar to open and close the drinking hole.The book is almost square and hand-friendly with 185 black and white pictures (plus fifteen in color) and a nice touch is the addition of several patent office technical drawings on the facing page of the actual lid. The first few pages have an interesting illustrated eighteen page 'Brief field guide to the coffee lid'. Missing from the book, I thought, are a sidebar or two about the companies who make these millions (billions?) of lids, how many hundredths of a second does it take to make a lid? Are there regional companies who makes lids that are not available across America?A delightfully quirky book about an everyday object that despite its simplicity is still inspiring designers to come up with top of the cup ideas. Look inside the book at Westread Book Reviews, click 2018 then June.

If you don't think it's important to pay attention to the design of something as small as a coffee lid, I challenge you to pick this book up. Juicy shots of this impressive collection along with short essays make this volume a must-have for design fanatics and ritual observers of everyday things.

arcana at its best.

A very nice book. Don't get it twisted: this is just a book showing off lots of lids for disposable coffee cups, but it's incredibly interesting nonetheless. A delightful "coffee table" book.