Cups Without Handles-Courtney Hottowe

Cups without Handles

This was a difficult subject to start writing about. So I went into Google and looked up some interesting pictures of “cups without handles”. There are many different styles and shapes of cups that are available without handles. For example, there are coffee mugs and cups, water cups, shot glasses, and bowls are practically cups with no handles. The cup that is used most among college students is the party cup, a simple plastic cup that comes in multiple colors and is easily mass-produced. Although they are easily made, they are not very artistic and do not usually have any creativity added to them unless you add it yourself!

There are many different styles of the coffee cup or mug. The cup can come in glass and plastic versions mostly with handles but there are a few without, and the mug is usually made of plastic and can be used to keep the beverage warm. These are interesting because of the designs that are put on to them. Lately Starbucks has been making ceramic coffee mugs that are easier on the environment! When they are ceramic they are thicker and keep the drink warmer and they are able to paint better designs onto them unlike the plastic ones that usually don’t have designs because they need to be dishwasher safe. The downside of ceramic mugs is that they aren’t dishwasher safe.

Shot glasses are also a great way to put creativity to work. There are so many ceramic shot glasses with designs and colors and are easily made. Shot glasses although easily made, need to be very precise with their sizes because of what they are used for. It may be difficult for a beginner, especially me, to make a shot glass because of the size and the exact amount of liquid that is supposed to be held. Here is a picture of a shot glass I found especially creative. J

Water cups are not usually ceramic, they are often plastic or glass but they can still be used creatively, and in many different ways. There are many different shapes and sizes of cups, as we are currently learning with our cylinder assignment, that it is easy to make many different heights of cylinders, it’s the width that makes the cup different mostly. Plastic water cups many times are larger than glass cups because of the weight of the cup and the danger of dropping or breaking the cup. Also, plastic cups are more often colorful and artistic. Glass cups are artistic in the way they are shaped and the grooves in the glass. I prefer plastic cups because they don’t break and you can get ones that have lids and straws!