Quote Mugs for Coffee Lovers

The Grumpy Cat people have a new design out, with "Coffee Now!!!", in the style of their Grumpy Cat image macros (image macros are those funny images – of funny characters – with superimposed text you see all over social media). A related Tard mug (that's the cat's name) comes with the words "Do I look like I rise and shine?" The coffee mug was probably the next step.

Sometimes it's fun to gift things, well, just for fun.

A mug I've spotted a while ago and one that I still like very much has the gradation Asleep / Consciousness / Drowsy / Awake / Now you can talk to me. It has been copied/adapted left and right, but no version is so impactful as this one. Only I think you may agree that the words should have been placed on the other side of the line :). Maybe that's part of the joke, maybe it isn't. In any case, it's a fun mug.

I like the design on the espresso cup. Simple yet effective. And the colors and blur effects look great.

There are also some JavaScript coffee mugs out there.

I love this one. It's as good as the gradation one, if not better.

Love the cartoon and the idea of using a dinosaur :). Maybe this would work for caffeine-addicted grandpa who has no high blood pressure and lots of anger issues (still).

Then there's "Peace. Love. Coffee." Not as grand as Peace. Love. Music, but without coffee there may not be peace, there may not be love. Just saying. Besides, I like the design.

This is rather funny. Imagine the ordeal without coffee. No, I'm kidding.

You can get this mug for a friend who's a certified therapist or for one who's not and doesn't want to play one.

Then there's:

I must have coffee – and a spazzed-out little man
There are lots of Starbucks-derived designs out there, as is to be expected.

The "Careful, or you'll end up in my novel" mugs and T-shirts are very popular with writers. From what I've been reading, they run into each other at conferences, their T-shirts making implicit statements about their interactions there as well. For this reason, I'm showing here both some mugs and some T-shirts.

The "Careful, or" designs you see here are my own. Rather than just spelling the message, I designed it so you can see some faces in the letters. I hope you enjoy them.

This one is really good. Loved it. I don't know about all the polka dots, but maybe they're the designer's version of a happy dance.

Another Instant human. Just add coffee.

This one was made in 2008. The other one in 2009. So not much of a happy dance then. (I know, it's not very funny, but I'm in a good mood. I've just had coffee, and I'm about to head out to see some fireworks.)

It's already the New Year. I've had another cup of coffee.

Thought I'd post some of my own designs as well. Here they are below.

This is an early design of mine, and at first it wasn't much designed at all but mostly a personal slogan. I meant it for people who enjoy their solitude and who are "selectively social" ("antisocial" sounds much too severe). I'm thinking it would be an appropriate choice for those who don't want to be disturbed while writing at Starbucks or in other coffeehouses. There really are people like that, who stay there for the coffee and munchies all day. I've seen them. Haven't stayed there all day with them but they were beginning to grow beards. Or something.

So this message is for any writer, gamer, or reader who likes to spend a lot of time involved in solitary activities or in group activities online. Sometimes I'm like that, too.

I love coming up with coffee slogans. I've created a number of them on Zazzle. Not all of them stayed put, since not all ideas age well. The "Coffee. Cause Life's Dangerous" quote I still like. "Coffee. So I can find my mind," not so much, but other people seem to like it enough to buy it, so I kept it online.

Hope you found something that you liked. Remember that you can also make your own mugs on Zazzle, either as a designer, as I did, or when you place an order. Zazzle has nice fonts, and you can write whatever you want. If you want ideas, you can browse through your Pinterest quotes. They often give me ideas. Or you could do a monogram mug. There are plenty of beautiful monograms on Zazzle to choose from. I'm showing an M mug below.

You can also use one of your own photos.

Or you can pick a mug with a monogram design and customize it further, maybe writing something (a short quote) instead of someone's name. For instance on the mug shown below to the left, you can write "Coffee Anytime" instead of Name, or just "Coffee," and something else underneath, for instance "and good books."

I personally find that these monogram designs lend themselves nicely to adding your own text. Note that you can add something on the green band, too, of course. Just experiment with it.

And if you want a blank canvas, you can find that too. I'm showing one such blank mug below. You remove that placeholder image and that placeholder text, and add whatever you like (image/images and/or text).

Thanks for reading and I hope I've helped you find a mug with a fun coffee quote -- or at least given you some ideas for one.