We offer a full range of services relating to custom-designed paper cups production, all the way from design to delivery of the finished product at. They provide an effective advertising surface, wide target audience coverage, and extended contact with the advertising medium guaranteed. For his current exhibition at Feuer/Mesler Gallery in New York, Brad created sculptures using a variety of Pinterest-learned skills, including casting underground ant colonies from DIY forged aluminum, creating handmade paper that can grow a garden, baking gingerbread for a few thousand cockroaches (I’ll spare you the detail shots of. The Anthora died out in 2010, a victim – ironically – of the massive upsurge in takeaway coffee. Paper cups with a custom design and logo are a great way to convey an image of a product, trademark or brand. Artist Brad Troemel loves ants and internet tutorials. In 1994 alone a reported 500 million Anthora paper coffee cups were sold in New York. The Anthora was a massive success – becoming an emblematic object of the city. The inscription “We are happy to serve you” in golden yellow appears over a steaming hot cup of coffee. takes it from disposable to permanent and was designed by Graham Hill. The cup gets its name from a mispronunciation of amphorae. The iconic We Are Happy To Serve You paper coffee cup was introduced in 1963 by. To get the cup into New York diners, which were then mostly run by Greek Americans, this born salesman chose the blue and white of the Greek flag, a classic Grecian meander for the border and two roughly drawn amphorae.
For retro authenticity, the Anthora has appeared in modern TV classic Mad Men, which fits because it was designed in 1963 by Leslie Buck of the Sherri Cup Company. And it was always the same style cup – the Anthora Paper Cup.
It makes us nostalgic for the days when the very idea of getting a “take-out” coffee was the height of New York sophistication, something you might see in an episode of Cagney and Lacey or Hill Street Blues. Some seven million disposable coffee cups are tossed into bins every day in the UK alone, and according to Fearnley-Whittingstall, only a tiny fraction are actually recycled. Last year British food writer and activist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall started a campaign, “Wake up and smell the waste”, to highlight the mountain of coffee cups that end up in landfill.