Radial Fin Cup
Reinventing the Coffee Cup
The Radial Fin Cup is an attempt to improve the typical coated, rolled and glued coffee cup with a plastic lid and insulation sleeve, and satisfy coffee shop owners, consumers and the the environment alike. Customers want ease-of-use, convenience and cleanliness. The environment needs us to come up with sustainable ways to drink our daily coffee without forcing consumers to reuse their coffee cup.
The Radial Fin Cup is a single-mold sleeveless cup that is sustainable and 100% biodegradable. It’s made from molded sugarcane pulp or reed fiber pulp, depending on where in the world it is manufactured, using local, renewable organic waste material.
The design incorporates fins to allow for insulation from the cup surface without adding an extra sleeve. The single mold design eliminates the need for glue in the manufacturing process.
The Radial Fin Cup was featured in Design Related, The Dieline, BLDGWLF.
Single molded sustainable-pulp fiber cup eliminate the need for gluing and separate insulation sleeve.
Fins provide insulation and are molded out of the original form.
The fins on this cup are built into the mold for less waste and a streamlined manufacturing process.
Environmentally-friendly attributes upgrade the disposable coffee cup to a better alternative.
The lid was designed to be disposed of in the standard waste stream. Graphics indicate its status.
Early sketches and concepts of the cup design.
Early renders of the 3D model for the radial fin cup design. 