Logo AWAY from the drinker.
(I have no idea what a Tervis cup is, but if I were Mr. Tervis, I’d want people to be showing my logo to everybody else when they set it down after taking a drink. THEY’RE the ones who need to see my logo, so they can know to go out and buy one of my neat-o cups. The person doing the drinking already has one.)
I love my Camelback for hiking, but just the thought of someone wearing one at the office has me in stitches. That seems more than a little eccentric. “Must drink water NOW! Can’t wait 15 seconds to grab my cup and head to the water cooler! NOW! WATER NOW!”
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Most of the fancy water bottles I see are Camelbacks. They’re just water bottles. No backpack component.
I should add that while I’m familiar with the cup with a lid and a spout or slot for drinking through the lid, in my world nobody uses these in the office. They’re for when you’re out and about. In the office we use mugs for tea and coffee, and glasses for water.
Well, that’s no fun. (A GIS search on “camelback” shows only backpacks, but I’m somewhat disappointed to report that a search on “camelback cup” does indeed show water bottles.)
They are called “Camelbak” (no C).
Actually the new trend in water bottles is insulated steel, like these from S’well. Talk about ridiculous pricing!
I had never heard of a Tervis cup or even that brand name.
But for insulation type drinking vessels around these parts Hydroask is the thing:
I was put off by the price at first but after the SO got one as a gift I became a convert. The ability of these things to keep things hot or cold is almost unbelievable. And they can take a bullet:
The pricing is ridiculous, but those MOFO’s work!
Ms. Cups and I got one as a gift a while back and we’ll throw a handful of ice cubes in it, fill it with water, and stick in our theme-park backpack. We’ll be at Disney all day, in the middle of July, and that water is STILL ice cold 5 hours later. It’s amazing.
I only have one good hand. When I had the cast on my left hand, the nice guy at 7-eleven gave me a free cup with a handle. Now I always use a cup with a handle, and the lid’s hole has to be lined up with the handle on my right hand.
ETA: Appropriate user name to start this thread.
Tervis-style vessels are, as noted above, sippy cups. As I am an adult, I have no use for a sippy cup. If I do drink from a Tervis-style vessel I do so with the lid removed. “But”, you say, “what about when you are in the car, Doc? How do you keep your drink from sloshing out?” “Phft”, says I, “if one must have a drink in the car it should always be in either a bottle with a screw on cap or, as a distant second choice, in a can. Hot drinks in a moving vehicle are simply a bad idea.”
I’ve seen one, once. It is a double-walled cup, something like a thermos bottle in design. With the one I saw, the inner section and the outer section could screw apart, and there was a piece of cardboard with some team logo or something put in the gap between the two sections–which, of course, you could change for your own custom image.
Apparently my grandparents were drinking out of insulated tumblers before it was cool. 
I had to Google it, too. Also don’t care about the way the logo faces.
Unless you have baby hands like Dooneese (SNL reference), you’re probably going to be covering the logo as you drink so , really, what difference does it make? I voted the third option.
I find the OP’s question bizarre. I do have a Tervis tumbler, but it’s never occurred to me to pay attention to or care which way the “label” (which is really a misnomer, since there’s nothing stuck on the outside) is facing. This is is like asking "which side of a beer bottle is the proper side to drink out of?
Oh, that’s an easy one. You pour the beer into the glass appropriate for the type, allowing you to enjoy the appearance, aroma, and taste.
So it’s completely blank? If that’s the case, then yeah, it wouldn’t matter which way the logo is facing. However, like I said in my OP, her tumbler DOES have a logo on it, so it matters.
I don’t think the beer label comparison works here because you bought the brand of beer because you like the taste of the beer, not necessarily to show the beer off to the people around you. You choose your Tervis design specifically because it’s something you like and want to show it off. The question is asking which is the best way to do that.
Does it?
Yes.
Thousands of children will be taken from their homes and murdered unless I get an answer to this question :rolleyes:
I knew about Tervis tumblers because they were SUPERHOTTRENDYHIPSTER about a year ago among the younger crowd (20’s to 30’s.)** Just** the demographic that has to have the latest and most expensive stuff. To this group the insane prices are a feature, not a bug.