“There had to be a better way to drink coffee on the go.” Jay Sorensen
The cardboard sleeve became the ubiquitous finger-saver for coffee fanatics everywhere.
Coffee sleeves can be found not in the café at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), but rather in the museum’s collections together with famous works of art worth millions. But it would be incorrect to consider it out of place; the genius of the coffee cup sleeves makes it a million-dollar object as well.
Coffee cup sleeves are roughly cylindrical sleeves that fit firmly over handle-less paper coffee cups to cloister the drinkers hand from hot coffee. The coffee sleeve was invented and patented by Jay Sorensen under the trademarked name Java Jacket. They are now