ps halfway through my trip between rawles and swain just now with a cup of coffee, i noticed that i was holding it top and bottom, and thought of your mention of this behavior in class. i realized, though, that i wasn’t doing it because it was too hot to hold the other way, it was because i always spill my coffee when i hold it the other way. i think the taper on these styrofoam cups is too intense, and the normal back and forth sway of walking always makes me splash some on the stairs. when i hold it with my thumb protruding over the top lip, however, it makes it not only so that the motion is less jostling, but also so that it will burn me if it splashes, which is enough of a danger that my brain is more willing to allocate the required energy to keeping my hand steady.
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i believe wholeheartedly in the idea that design doesn’t stop with the designer – in fact, it is one of my major motivators and i want to embrace it by designing tools that are as versatile as possible, as i’ve probably mentioned before. but what’s the difference between creacreative positions of holding a coffee cup are not really

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