Mugs52 Is Again—Meet The Makers Behind Our 2024 Assortment

After an almost year-long collaboration with among the most proficient ceramicists throughout the nation, we’re so excited to introduce this yr’s Mugs52 assortment. Provide is restricted, so get your palms in your favourite items ASAP.

1. A Query of Eagles

• Location: Broad Ripple, IN
• What was the inspiration in your design? Coloration was forefront on our thoughts this yr, so we took a deep dive researching vacation decor rooted in additional European traditions. There, we discovered plenty of stripes and daring colours to encourage us for our mug. We predict it exudes a comfy attraction for consuming sizzling cocoa in your snow coated cottage. Simply add a plaid tablecloth for optimum sample play.

2. Andrew Molleur Studio

• Ceramicist: Andrew Molleur
• Location: Kingston, NY
• What was the largest problem of designing this mug? The largest problem to designing this mug was attaining the correct proportions. For instance, the deal with is giant sufficient to slide no less than two fingers behind, matches the mug physique, and does not really feel uncomfortable to carry and drink from when it’s crammed with liquid.

3. Base Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Catalina Parra
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? What many don’t notice is that every mug is hand-painted utilizing layers of coloured clay, giving the colours a wealthy depth, and making every bit really one-of-a-kind.

4. Newbie Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Jesse Hamerman
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? The scale will be good for ice cream, cereal, even a do-it-yourself warming rooster broth. You can too use it as a planter for a succulent, a pen holder, a container to make {custom} candles—there’s so many potentialities.

5. BG Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Bennett Graves
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA
• What was the inspiration in your design? I drink loads of matcha lattes at house and wished to create my splendid mug for that event. The glazes are impressed by the colours and textures of a glacial pool and felt like the proper backdrop for the colourful inexperienced of matcha.

6. BKLYN CLAY Made

• Ceramicists: Sarah Allwine & Gustav Hamilton
• Location: New York, NY
• What was the inspiration in your design? Our inspiration was classic journey mugs. They had been made to maintain your espresso on the dashboard whereas driving, which we expect could be very cool.

7. Bombabird

• Ceramicist: Chelsea Erdner
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? The mug is made out of a white stoneware and completed in a {custom} glaze, combined in my studio. The inside of the mug has a satin robin’s egg blue glaze whereas the outside is dipped in a extra textured pale blue with some speckles. Every glaze is a distinct hue of blue however I really like how nicely they praise one another.

8. Carved Coloration

• Ceramicist: Taylor Suchy
• Location: Newport Seashore, CA
• What was the largest problem of designing this mug? The largest problem this yr was maintaining the strains on the design clear. The secondary clay physique on the surface is extra textured and tough so the glaze slips in between the tape when masking it off.

9. Connor McGinn Studios

• Ceramicist: Connor McGinn
• Location: Tarrytown, NY
• What our group loves about this mug: The form and colour—it is a combo that begs us to drink espresso from it.

10. Earth + Component

• Ceramicist: Elizabeth Gold
• Location: Los Angeles, CA
• What was the inspiration in your design? We drew inspiration from the comfortable, timeless attraction of fall plaid for this mug design. Every cup is meticulously hand-painted with refined iridescent matte stripes, which, when fired, softly blur to create a stupendous, one-of-a-kind impact. This natural variation makes each mug really distinctive, reflecting the contact of our three proficient native artisans in our Los Angeles studio.

11. East Fork Pottery

• Location: Asheville, NC
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? This mug is ideal for pouring a chilly one.

12. Ekua Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Sara Todd
• Location: Lengthy Seashore, CA
• What was the inspiration in your design? I wished one thing warming however acquainted. I feel the oxblood glaze and the pink actually complement one another whereas additionally not being too boring.

13. Elizabeth Benotti

• Ceramicist: Elizabeth Benotti
• Location: Eliot, ME
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? This mug is hand constructed from porcelain slabs as an alternative of being wheel-thrown. Every bit is rigorously assembled, with the blue underglaze hand-painted, after which the herringbone sample is carved out in a course of referred to as sgraffito.

14. Erin Louise Clancy

• Ceramicist: Erin Clancy
• Location: Queens, NY
• What was the largest problem of designing this mug? The largest problem in designing this mug lies within the Mishima method used to create its herringbone or knit/purl sample. This ceramic methodology entails making use of a contrasting colour of slip into the grooves of an etched clay floor, requiring cautious hand-carving and inlay with porcelain slip. Every bit demanded care and a focus to efficiently obtain the intricate floor sample.

15. Fenway Clayworks

• Ceramicist: Sean VanderVilet
• Location: Golden, CO
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? My objective is alway to make objects that may exist on a counter when not getting used, and nonetheless present an attention-grabbing visible component to an area. I feel these mugs slot in that class. If not for espresso or tea, heck, use it for ice cream.

16. Fisheye Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Kim Gilmour
• Location: Catskill, NY
• What was the largest problem of designing this mug? I wished to make a mug that might maintain a considerable quantity of espresso or tea, however that additionally felt mild and cozy and secure when held. Every mug is hand thrown, so it’s all the time a problem to attain all of that with each. The handles are a specific problem as you need to make it comfy to carry for various hand sizes.

17. Franca

• Ceramicist: Sierra Yip-Bannicq
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? Every Cara mug is hand-painted, so no two mugs are an identical. The refined variations in brushwork and glaze software make every bit one-of-a-kind. Made in our Brooklyn-based women-owned studio, this mug is a celebration of each artwork and craftsmanship.

18. G’Day Thrillseekers

• Ceramicist: Hannah Groff
• Location: NY
• What was the inspiration in your design? I drew loads of inspiration from my intensive tinned fish assortment, and the basic Hudson River Estuary signal with the gorgeous blue sturgeon on it that you simply see throughout New York.

19. Handmade Studio TN

• Ceramicist: Morgan Williamson
• Location: Nashville, TN
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? Each single mug takes weeks to finish from begin to end. Every step is approached with care and love, from molding the clay, to impressing the feel, to firing within the kiln, to wrapping up and transport to our prospects! We hope you’re keen on them as a lot as we cherished making them!

20. Heo Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Karent Tong
• Location: Los Angeles, CA
• What was the inspiration in your design? My studio Heo Ceramics takes its title from the Vietnamese phrase “heo” which implies boar, or pig. I used to be born within the 12 months of the Pig, and the coil of a pig’s tail has all the time drawn my eye and made me smile. The deal with on these mugs was designed to evoke that very same feeling!

21. IIIVVVYYY Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Ivy Weinglass
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? Certainly one of my favourite issues to drink out of my mugs is miso soup! After I’m at my studio and I would like one thing nourishing and heat, I put a packet of miso soup with some sizzling water in a mug, stir and sip on all of it day!

22. Jeremy Ayers

• Location: Waterbury, VT
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? The stripes on this mug are the uncooked clay of the mug itself. The colour of the uncooked clay varies from mug to mug relying on the place it was within the kiln.

23. Jessie Lazar

• Ceramicist: Jessie Lazar
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• What our group loves about this mug: Two issues: Speckles and deal with. The previous’s simply enjoyable—a playful reminder that your routine cup of joe is price celebrating. And the latter, nicely, it merely feels actually, actually good in your hand.

24. Kendall Davis Clay

• Ceramicist: Kendall Davis
• Location: Fort Price, TX
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? You would all the time use my mug to secretly be consuming one thing stronger. You would additionally use the mug because the reward at a piece associated “reward change” social gathering to be the star of the present.

25. Lauren HB Studio

• Ceramicist: Lauren Herzak-Bauman
• Location: Kingston, NY
• What was the inspiration in your design? The shape itself was my place to begin. I envisioned taking a line for a stroll, meandering across the contours of the mug. I hope to encourage a way of psychological wandering whereas somebody sips a sizzling beverage. It is about making a second of pause and reflection throughout the on a regular basis ritual of having fun with a drink.

26. Lauren Lauzon

• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? The oranges motif is one among my first ever designs I placed on a mug virtually six years in the past. For this mission, it felt actually becoming to nod to my beginnings as a ceramicist, whereas additionally that includes one among my newer deal with kinds.

27. Misplaced Quarry

• Ceramicist: Doris Josovitz
• Location: New York
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? I really like that my mugs will be artwork items—they’re good for styling on a shelf and even for sensible makes use of like holding pens and pencils on a desk. Within the toilet, they work nicely to maintain toothbrushes and toothpaste organized. In my studio, I exploit my pattern mugs to carry ceramic instruments.

28. Meltz Studio

• Ceramicist: Alexandra Meltzer
• Location: Newburgh, NY
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? The inexperienced colour of the brushstrokes had been created utilizing one thing referred to as copper wash. The copper utilized in ceramic colorants and the copper used to make pennies is identical component utilized in totally different types.

29. Mondays

• Ceramicist: Jennifer Fiore
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• What was the inspiration in your design? There’s a mug within the Etruscan Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork that’s so good and easy and timeless. It was made 1000’s of years in the past however manages to really feel totally modern. I need all of my work to have that very same high quality of not being clearly positioned in time or following a pattern.

30. Mondays

• Ceramicist: Nina Lalli
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? My mug is heavy! Some individuals could choose an alternate use. It is nice as a small vase, pencil holder, smoothie or milkshake cup (with a straw). It may even be a planter, with some pebbles within the backside to assist drainage, or cute as a utensil holder on the dinner desk or buffet.

31. Mud Witch

• Ceramicist: Viviana Matsuda
• Location: San Francisco, CA
• What was the largest problem of designing this mug? I wished one thing playful and practical. I like my mugs to appear to be they’re part of a cartoon. I wished the deal with to be like a big donut however I needed to make the deal with hole or the mug can be too heavy. I needed to throw it on the wheel then make a plaster mildew to pour a skinny layer of slip so the deal with can be light-weight.

32. Myrth Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Abigail Smallwood
• Location: Windfall, RI
• What was the inspiration in your design? Our mug design was impressed by the gorgeous cascading mild in our new studio in Windfall, RI. Diagonal rays of sunshine bathe our studio’s east-facing home windows and this makes it a extremely beautiful place to work day-after-day. The sunshine rays additionally reminded us of the feel of our Moon Vase so we mixed the 2 concepts in a diagonal hand-carved floor on our mug.

33. Objet Aimee

• Ceramicist: Aimee McLaughlin
• Location: Portland, ME
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? That stoneware clay was invented roughly 1,250,447 days in the past (1400 BCE) and this stoneware mug was invented roughly 64 days in the past (September 2024).

34. Pepper Stone Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Anna Richardson
• Location: Charlottesville, VA
• What was the inspiration in your design? I really like a classic French Stripe—the sample is timeless. However I wished to convey a extra relaxed tone to that with the imperfect, painterly type of the stripes that I feel provides a degree of cozy.

35. Private Finest

• Ceramicist: Whitney Simpkins
• Location: Baltimore, MD
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? I really like utilizing this dimension mug for an enormous scoop of ice cream. I’ve additionally been recognized to water the vegetation in my kitchen by filling a random mug from the cupboard.

36. Pigeon Toe

• Ceramicist: Sam Hough
• Location: Portland, OR
• What was the inspiration in your design? The ’70s! Pottery was stuffed with heat tones, natural floor design, and attention-grabbing textures. We began with a custom-made brown clay, and contrasted it with bursts of melted glass crystals combined into an off-white glaze.

37. Recreation Heart

• Ceramicist: Josephine Heilpern
• Location: New York, NY
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? I like to make use of my mugs for consuming broth within the morning. However exterior of consuming something you should use the mug to amplify sound! I imply it isn’t its primary intention however oftentimes, after I’m within the kitchen cooking, I place my telephone inside a mug to make my music louder. I suppose it is possibly time I purchase myself some audio system.

38. Rory Pots

• Ceramicist: Rory Shamlian
• Location: Burlington, VT
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? It was made in a studio in Burlington, Vermont by a really small group of ladies, a number of blocks away from Lake Champlain, prone to the sound of a real crime podcast.

39. Ruth Easterbrook

• Location: Philadelphia, PA
• What was the largest problem of designing this mug? I throw every cup from a lump of clay so getting the scale and/or proportions the identical every time is a problem. Slight variation is inherently a part of the handmade course of however I’m proud of how comparable they turned out.

40. Sarah Cihat

• Ceramicist: Sarah Grant
• Location: Nashville, TN
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? I’d positively use it for ice cream, as I don’t like an enormous big bowl of it. They’re additionally nice for snacks like nuts or olives and will match simply on a snack/charcuterie board, so make sure to purchase multiples!

41. Sombra

• Ceramicist: Allison Shawn
• Location: Los Angeles, CA
• What was the largest problem of designing this mug? Balancing texture, kind, and performance was key to making a minimalist however distinctive mug. I wished a floor that invitations contact with out being too coarse, making a texture that’s earthy but refined; I sought to make sure a secure, stackable kind that is comfy to carry; and I wished to take away any extraneous components from the making course of. Discovering that equilibrium took time, nevertheless it’s what makes every bit really feel so inviting.

42. Stone & Sparrow

• Ceramicist: Kate Marchand
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA
• What was the inspiration in your design? The inspiration for my design was actually a matter of trial and error. I got here up with this design whereas growing a sequence of items for an area espresso store with a bike theme (assume Deus Ex Machina vibes). Whereas growing one thing complementary to a “grease-spot” theme, I attempted loads of illustration patterns on the mug physique surfaces. This one caught!

43. Studiolo Artale

• Ceramicist: Isabella Artale
• Location: Union Metropolis, NJ
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? Since we’re in soup season, I feel this mug makes for an awesome “bowl.” You get the operate of a vessel, however with the added ergonomics of a deal with! Plus the peak of the mug wall is sweet for maintaining the soup hotter for longer.

44. Studio Joo

• Ceramicist: Elaine Tian
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• What was the inspiration in your design? My mug is a Japanese chawan-style bowl. After an inspiring go to to Japan in 2012, I took some tea ceremony courses on the Urasenke Chanoyu Heart in NYC. My work has been steeped within the wabi-sabi custom since. Enjoyable Reality: Urasenke Chanoyu Heart is situated within the former studio and residential of Mark Rothko. They’ve a Zen rock backyard, and among the most beautiful tea rooms exterior of Japan. I extremely suggest a go to!

45. Sunday Studio

• Ceramicist: Joanne Lee
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• What was the largest problem of designing this mug? I do not often make mugs so touchdown on the fitting dimension was a problem, to make it sufficiently big however not too huge. Clay shrinks about 12-15%, so one thing that appears the fitting dimension when it is freshly thrown can find yourself being kiddie-sized as soon as it is gone by way of the ultimate firing.

46. This Quiet Mud

• Ceramicist: Dubhe Carreno
• Location: Lake Forest, IL
• Apart from consuming espresso or tea, what’s one other approach somebody may use your mug? I truly love my new mug design as a flower vase as a result of it could possibly decide up the colour of any flower in addition to the greens of the leaves. I feel it will additionally make an superior brush holder or small utensil holder for shorter objects like measuring spoons, vegetable peeler, pizza cutter, and so forth.

47. Utility Objects

• Ceramicist: Aleisha Duchateau
• Location: Atlanta, GA
• What was the inspiration in your design? Industrial soil compactors. If you happen to see one you may know.

48. Void & Kind

• Ceramicist: Natalie Legg
• Location: Denver, CO
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it?
  That is robust as a result of I left this mug virtually totally naked so that you could see the colour of the clay itself. However, one factor somebody in all probability would not know is that this mug was created from clay I recycled in my studio.

49. Wilcoxson Brooklyn Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Kevin Wilcoxson
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• What was the inspiration in your design? The inspiration was celebration, confetti, vibrant colours and easy pleasure.

50. Wolf Ceramics

• Ceramicist: Sarah Wolf
• Location: Hood River, OR
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it?
  Whereas I used to be throwing these on the wheel I used to be—in all probability—listening to Harry Potter on tape. It is a custom yearly within the studio. As soon as it will get darkish and wet and manufacturing begins ramping up for the vacations, we begin listening to the sequence from the start.

51. Wonki Ware

• Ceramicist: Wonki Ware
• Location: Western Cape, South Africa
• What we love about this mug: It belongs on the eating desk of your fanciest feast, the nook of your workplace desk, and in all places in between.

52. Daniel Zunino

• Ceramicist: Daniel Zunino
• Location: Brooklyn, NY
• What’s one thing about your mug that somebody wouldn’t know simply by it? I spent a number of months growing a {custom} glaze for this piece, persevering with to iterate and check with the intention to land on the colour and texture I used to be after.