Awesome Ceramic

Ceramicist Jo Scravis creates amazing clay mugs featuring gross, disfigured, and downright disturbing characters from our world and beyond. Each one of a kind work of art is wheel-thrown, then hand-sculpted and painted with food-safe glazes.

We want a personal zoo filled with these polygonal stoneware animals from Brooklyn ceramicists Bronsen Company. Choose from Gerard Giraffe, Leo Lion, Calvin Crocodile, Grayson Gorilla, or Hamilton Hippo. Available in white or black, individually or in a complete set.

This sublime white stoneware growler is perfect for that very special beer enthusiast on your shopping list. Each one is slip cast and hand-finished in Portland by Birchfield Hardware and has a tight rubber seal to keep your brew fresh. Holds 64 oz, and measures 11″ x 5.75″.

These ceramic salt and pepper shakers are designed to look like giant-sized versions of those little paper shakers you get with fast food. Though these ones are guaranteed not to dump an inedible portion of the stuff on your food.

Ceramicist Catherine Smith’s stoneware popcorn bowl not only looks beautiful, it has a built-in strainer that lets unpopped kernels fall into a separate compartment, sparing your teeth from an unpleasant surprise while snacking.

Start your morning off with a bang with this ceramic mug that gets its form through the wonders of 3D printing. Designed by Augusto, it’s available in one of several gloss colors or matte black. I like my coffee like my gunpowder… black.

We love the design of this modern coffee mug, which beautifully blends Japanese-style ceramic work with walnut wood. Its open handle not only looks cool, it allows the mugs to be stacked.

Thankfully, pulling the pin on Megawing’s porcelain mug won’t blow you and your cup of coffee to Kingdom Come, but it should do a nice job keeping your beverage warm – especially if you leave the lid on. Available in white or black.

A very special ceramic coffee mug, made using 3D printing tech to create its clay mold. Yes, $99 is a lot to spend on a coffee cup, but true caffeine addicts should consider it a worthwhile investment. Also available as an espresso cup.

Similar to the Coke Can Glass, the Cuppa-Can is a ceramic mug shaped like a drink can. It even has a silicone lid with a molded pull-tab. Its double wall insulation keeps hot drinks hot and your hands cool. Also available here and here.

Pick up your cob with style, with Lana Filippone’s Jurassic ceramic corn holders. We only wish that T-Rex held the corn with its tiny hands. These are prototypes, but keep an eye on Imm Living for the production version.

Freak out your friends and make them think your coffee cup is sinking into the table with this off-kilter ceramic mug from Japan. Available in brown or white, though white is currently sold out.

Serving up the perfect breakfast, designer Jon Wye’s special-purpose ceramic plates have a sloped surface and reservoir to collect pooling syrup so you can dip each bite in the sticky stuff.

It’s definitely a First World problem, but some of us don’t like soggy crackers in our soup. It’s also great for milk and cookies, carrots and ranch, or… gummy bears and syrup?!? Sign us up!

Looking for that finishing touch for your room? Check out these creepy, yet awesome baskets and buckets filled with porcelain skulls by Minnesota artist Cyrus Swann. Single skulls start at just $20.

The extra large Diesel DZ4221 has a bold, easy-to-read dial, set into a durable ceramic case, which is twice as strong as stainless steel, plus it’s water-resistant to 5ATM. Also available in white.

Daniel Ballou designed these ceramic desktop containers, modeled after the giant corrugated metal shipping containers he witnesses every day on the docks of Long Beach. Ships 8/2011.

Your colleagues will know how you’re feeling every morning with Thabto’s lighthearted Mood Mugs; the double wall insulated porcelain pieces feature simple facial expressions to reflect the mood.

We like this ceramic Death Star cookie jar simply as sculpture in the kitchen – but we’d be stoked if it was filled with something delicious inside (like sugary, bite-sized Stormtroopers). (Thanks Jon!)

Clear the area and let us drink our favorite beverages in this handsome little Master Shake Ceramic Cup, which includes no handles and a pink straw for accuracy, as well as manly charisma.

Hey! Watch where you’re pointing that cup of coffee! Show them you really mean business in your next meeting when you walk in carrying your cup of joe in one of these.

These retro-charming ceramic floppy disk tiles, created by the creative powers that be at Australia’s Eness, are not available for sale, but don’t you just wish they were?