Function

Designed

Alternative

Expectation Failings Success AffordanceColourArchetype

Paper Coffee Cup

It would seem that from the ridged design of the cups body that it was intentionally designed to contain a hot drink.

Can be used to hold water

May be re-used as a desk tidy

Can be used to protect grapes etc

It’s cone shape form

Brown or white card

Plastic lid

White

Brown

Dark Red

When using a paper coffee cup I would expect that it would contain a hot drink without any leakage or disstortion of form.

I would expect to be able to hold the cup without burning my hands.

Be able to contain the drink in the cup by means of a lid

Paper coffe cups waste paper as they are generally not recycled.

Different coffe shops alter their sives so a small cup in Starbucks may not be a small at Costa.

Some cups can be flimsy and feel unsafe to carry.

They enable Coffee shops to pro-vide a quick service which keeps their customers happy.

They keep your Coffee/Tea hot.

For coffee shops the paper cups is very affordable. With a heavy mark-up on their coffe they can afford to give away a cupto each customer and the necesity to provide an ex-tremely quick service means the paper coffee cup is ideal.

Paper is fairly cheap.

IdeasAfter pin-pointing the faults of the

common paper cup I started to form

some solutions. I wanted to try and

create a re-useable cup that would

not be a problem to carry and would

be as convenient as the paper cup.

Spring Cup

Birds eye view

Birds eye viewside view

side view

Cup Lid

Inner lining

Flat coil spring

Outer lining

Outer lining

Plastic screw-top lip

Plastic screw-top lid

Coil spring skeleton

Extend cup and fill with cold or hot

drink. The cup is double lined with an

air gap seperating your hands from the

hot water

The plastic lid screws to the top of

the cup which ensures that your drink

doesn’t spill

When you have finished your drink,

shake the cup dry, turn it upside

down and compress the spring. Then

simply screw the lid over the top of the

compressed cup to keep it secure

In it’s compressed form the cup would

be no bigger than a current coffee cup

lid. This means it can be transported

easily and would even fit into a jacket

pocket