We recently came across this new concept – digital fabrication.
The design company team at cunicode set themselves the target of designing and creating a new coffee cup every day for a month.
You can see the results of their energy and imagination here. The concepts they work with are a long way from the potters wheel and the handcrafted cup.
I suspect to completely stock a coffee shop with these products would be a very expensive exercise indeed, at thirty to forty euros a go. However, as single ‘coffee art’ purchases for the discerning buyer they make a statement without doubt.
The finished products can be from Glazed Ceramics at Shapeways.
Have a look at the cunicode site, to see digital representations of the finished cups.
Really great coffee should have a really great cup, of course.