Best The Unemployed Philosophers Guild Coffee Mugs in 2026

We designed our Sherlock Holmes mug with plenty of details for the keen observer.

Holmes quotes, rules of deduction, intriguing images, and Sidney Pagets' portrait of the world's only consulting detective!

14 oz. ceramic coffee cup with a comfortable handle.

The Jane Austen mug is just the thing for women of independent means and superior men.

It features her image, as well as a pleasing collection of quotes and excerpts from her work.

14 oz. ceramic coffee cup with a comfortable handle.

Featuring 24 opening lines of some of the greatest works of literature.

12 oz. mug. Dishwasher and microwave safe.

From the Unemployed Philosophers Guild. Don't worry. We are employed, just not as philosophers. We're a small, Brooklyn based company specializing in gifts for the sophisticated gift giver. For whatever you need, we have presents of mind.

When it's cold, the mug is encircled with elegant silhouettes of birds on a wire.

Pour in a hot beverage and watch as 18 bird species appear in full color. Go ahead and tweet about it!

12 oz. ceramic coffee cup with a comfortable handle. All of our disappearing mugs come in a beautifully designed, colorful box.

When you add hot water, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Lieutenant Uhura, and Dr. McCoy leave the Transporter Room on one side of the mug and materialize to explore the planet surface on the other side of the mug.

Energize!

14 oz. BPA-free ceramic coffee cup with a comfortable handle. All of our disappearing mugs come in a beautifully designed, colorful box. Heat activated color changing mugs are microwave safe, but not dishwasher safe. Hand wash only. Don't soak.

Thanks to this clever Disappearing Dino Mug you can watch eons pass before your eyes over a cup of coffee.

When you pour in a hot beverage, the dinosaurs transform into fossils in a museum exhibition.

Disappearing mugs are not dishwasher safe but are microwave safe.

Hey, math fans! Since you can't actually listen to a mathematics greatest hits album, we decided to create the next best thing -- meet the Math Mug. It's a deep black ceramic mug covered with some of history's most famous and important mathematical formulas.

You get gems such as Newton's Second Law, Planck's Equation, Hubble's Law, the Fourier Transform, and the mother of all equations, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The Math Mug is covered with formulas like this, making it a superb gift for any mathematician, physicist, or math teacher. All in all, it adds up to a pretty terrific coffee mug.Holds 12 oz. Dishwasher and microwave safe.

12 oz. mug. Dishwasher and microwave safe.

When the mug is cold, the image of Bob Ross reminds you to be calm and find time in your life to create.

When you pour in a hot beverage, a Bob Ross painting appears to inspire you. Officially Licensed by Bob Ross Inc.

A 12 oz. ceramic coffee cup. All of our disappearing mugs come in a beautifully designed, colorful box.

When the mug is empty, it shows fourteen closet doors. But when you pour in a hot beverage, 14 of the world's most famous gays proudly emerge.

Includes Michelangelo, Michel Foucault, Freddie Mercury-see the product description below for a full list!

14 oz. ceramic coffee cup with a comfortable handle. All of our disappearing mugs come in a beautifully designed, colorful box.

Holds 10oz.

Disappearing mugs are not dishwasher safe but are microwave safe.

Designed with images carved into burial monuments, UPG's stone-colored mug, Memento Mori ("remember death"), will remind you to take time to smell the lilies. Angels with trumpets (hurrah!), skeletons with hour glasses (tick-tock, people!) and just enough Latin to hint that life is fleeting ( Tempus Fugit / Fugit Hora ).

In the bottom of the mug is a reminder of the inevitable - and an ouroboros (snake biting its own tail) to represent eternity. This dignified Memento Mori mug, in its own gift box, is perfect for gloomy people who need Coffee to... wake.

14 oz. ceramic coffee cup with a comfortable handle.