7 Attention-Getting, No-Frills Coffee Mugs For Work
A unique mug can be a great conversation starter around the office. But if you want to impress your boss and earn the respect of your more straight-laced peers, stay away from big cartoonish heads, skip travel mugs (it hints at addiction), don't settle for color-changing ceramic cups, and give those slogan-y ironic jobs a break*.
Until the PC cup becomes a reality, there are plenty of subtle but cleverly-designed, non-frills but classy mugs to choose from, like this data-heavy one that says, "I always keep things in perspective."
[$12 via Amazon]
More after the jump...
*I rocked a mug adorned with a magical painting of a horse for a couple years, but after a while, it got to be too much.
"I'm a tenacious, risk-taker"
[The Play Coalition via Book of Joe]
"I like my coffee black and I'm not afraid to show it"
[$35 via Bodum]
"There is more to me than meets the eye"
[$14 via Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0016CSBJS; image via Jeveuxca]
"I'm man enough to be comfortable with pink", or...
"I'm a gal who enjoys the finer things in life, like dunking cookies"
[Old concept, new fun color via s2999]
"Everything I do, I do with precision"
[$10 via ThinkGeek]
"In NY, they throw these away. Not me: I care about Mother Gaia"
[$13 via Amazon http://www.amazon.com/York-City-Ceramic-Coffee-Cup/dp/B000GWN55E/ref=pd_sim_k_4]
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Powerphail
#1 – 2:12 PM May 22, 2009
Wow, T-rex brains are tiny...
Bruce Wright
#2 – 3:44 PM May 22, 2009
Yeah, that trex one is false.
Nelson.C
#3 – 2:09 PM May 23, 2009
Yeah, a quick google gives an extimate of 500 cm3 for a T. rex brain.
And that volume for the amount of cells that die seems a bit bogus; where does it all go? House dust, dandruff, feces, eaten by white blood cells? Seems out by at least an order of magnitude to my intuition.
HoundRound
#4 – 11:03 PM August 2, 2009
On the beaker coffee mug, they should have put one of those little frosty patches where they wrote "T. Rex". Then, you could write in whatever you wanted for the tiny brain volume joke.
BlockQuoteProducts
#5 – 11:19 PM August 3, 2009
The Pink cookie holder is made so it is too easy to spill your cookies.