Digital artwork by Nate Johnson, senior art major at Walla Walla University
Inspiration for Johnson’s [jet engine mug with an aircraft stick grip handle] came from Johnson’s time spent in the Navy, stationed on USS Harry S. Truman. “Every now and then I’d walk around while they were testing jet engines,” Johnson says. “Then in advanced design class we were supposed to design a coffee mug, and I was just thinking, What is something cool that is shaped like a cylinder?”