Awesome Mugs

Creep out your party guests with this drinking vessel from Kachaktano Mugs. The H.P. Lovecraft-inspired mug features the likeness of Cthulhu as the monster slurps up a skull, bringing its tentacled madness to a new victim. The hand-painted porcelain mug holds up to 18.5 oz of your favorite elixir – be it mixed with rum, vodka, or the tears of lost sailors.

Real crocodiles can be scary, but artist Jeff Granito turned these normally intimidating reptiles into chill characters. His limited-edition Croc Tails tiki mugs from Tikiland Trading are adorable, with the blue and green duo looking ready to enjoy a sunny day in the tropics. They’re sold individually, but how could you possibly separate the duo?

Coffee fiends will go to great lengths to fix the perfect cup of joe. Why hide it in a ceramic mug? Snaw’s elegantly modern coffee cups are made from smoked glass with a mountainous 3D sculpture at the bottom and finished with a walnut wood handle. Holds a hearty 15.2 oz./450 ml of your favorite hot beverage. Sold individually or in discounted sets of 2, 4, or 6 mugs.

This generously-sized glass beer stein features a topographic impression of Oregon’s Mt. Hood at its bottom. Each stein holds 25 oz. and is handblown from borosilicate glass with a double-wall design to help keep your beer cool. Huckberry also sells Whiskey Peaks rocks glasses, and a decanter.

This large 18 oz. ceramic mug is a great gift for LEGO fans. Sip your coffee, tea, or hot cocoa from the oversize yellow head of a classic LEGO Minifigure while imagining how big the rest of its body must have been. It comes in four designs: Happy Boy, Winking Girl, Silly Face, and Slightly Less Happy Boy. Collect them all!

This ceramic coffee mug from Chibson and Acorn Amplifiers is the perfect gift for guitarists. It’s designed to look like a knob from an amp or effects pedal, and just like Nigel Tufnel’s amp in This Is Spinal Tap, this one goes to 11. Each mug is handmade from food-grade ceramic and holds up to 10 oz.

There’s nothing worse than rolling out of bed in hopes of easing into the day and instead waking up to a disaster in your email box or dog poop on the rug. The “It’s Too Early for This Shit” mug from Pigment is for people who aren’t quite ready to face the day and would rather go back to sleep. The amber glass mug holds 12 oz. of your favorite caffeinated pick-me-up.

These personalized mugs from Germany’s Atelier Corvus are great for sipping coffee by the campfire. Each is made from colorful enameled steel wrapped with a handmade leather strap embossed with the mug owner’s name and fastened with brass studs. A handstitched leather sleeve covers the handle.

This unique ceramic mug makes an excellent gift for builders, architects, DIYers, and Londoners. The rectangular mug features a design inspired by the iconic building material from the London Brick Company. It holds up to 500 ml – about 19.2 ounces of coffee, tea, or other hot beverage. It also looks like a gigantic PEZ candy to us.

Clutch Gear makes the perfect gift for gearheads – a mug that looks like an oil filter and wrench. The mug has stainless steel double-wall insulation to keep drinks hot or cold and a washable press-fit lid with a sipping hole. Its handle is made from silicone, and its body features a shiny powdercoat finish. Available in 15 oz. and 20 oz. sizes, as well as tumblers.

This upgraded version of Yeti’s jumbo-sized 24 oz. Rambler Mug comes with a splash-resistant Magslider lid that prevents spills and makes for easy sipping. Like other Yeti drinkware, it features a double-wall 18/8 kitchen-grade stainless steel body to insulate cold or hot beverages. It comes in a variety of colors as well as a natural brushed steel finish.

Iron Fist Alexander is one of the most memorable characters in Elden Ring, gifting you with one of the most useful talismans in the game should you see his side quest to the end. Let him aid you in your daily grind with this porcelain mug from Movic. It measures about 4″ x 5″ x 6″. Not enough to hold the flesh of fallen warriors, but good enough for coffee or candy.

Lots of questionable things happen in life and at work. Clearly, you require a coffee mug that expresses your continual state of disbelief. Meriwether’s 16 oz. ceramic mug does a perfect job conveying your incredulity with the phrase “What (and I cannot stress this enough) the f**k?” done up in a pleasing script typeface.

Do you or someone you know love tea and science? This black-and-white ceramic mug from Cognitive Surplus is perfect for sipping your favorite hot beverage. It features a chemical breakdown of the compounds found in tea, from energy-boosting Caffeine and Theobromine to aromatic Linalool and tasty trans-2-hexenal.

Geeki Tikis makes all kinds of wonderful tiki mugs inspired by pop culture. Their Star Wars collection is quite extensive and includes this awesome ceramic mug that looks like a TIE fighter. It holds up to 24 oz. of your favorite Star Wars cocktail. They also make a Death Star tiki mug for tipsy fly-bys.

This impressive drinking vessel is like the Mjolnir of mugs. Weighing 22 pounds (or 10 kg for metric folks), it’s machined from stainless steel with thick walls and a welded-on knurled handle that won’t let you down. Despite its heft, it only has a 13.5 oz. capacity. Each is handcrafted, so there’s about a two-month lead time for orders.