IN THE CUP

You’ve custom-roasted your beans sourced from origin? Check. Hooked up your fancy coffee machine? Check. Now the only thing standing between you and opening the doors on your café du jour are the cups by Acme & Co (no relation to the Sydney design studio of the same name to the left here). Jeff Kennedy, the godfather of New Zealand espresso, designed them from scratch to tick all the boxes that he never managed to find elsewhere all in one cup. He must’ve done something right because now they’re favoured by coffee diehards the world over, and Australia has by no means been immune to their normcore charm. What’s the hook? “Special coffee deserves special cups,” says Dominick Majdandzic, co-owner of White Horse Coffee, a local distributor of the brand, “and nothing says special more than Acme & Co.” acmecups.com