2025 calendar
BERLIN WALL SEGMENTS
Get a gato cat cafe and adoption center is now open!
rethinktank’s manhole cover series has moved to a new online site: www.toimbino.shop
8 new city trivets added
Arnhem, Brussels Ambiorix, Brussels Deglume, Dortmund, Essen, Maastricht, Mons & Utrecht
New coaster set: belgium!
Four cities from the Le Plat Pays
Rethinktank featured on fox 29
As part of the Sustain Your Neighborhood Art & Food Festival RethinkTANK’s Manhole Cover series was featured on Philadelphia’s Fox 29 TV segment. The event is Saturday May 21st at NextFAB’s North Philadelphia location 1800 North American Street. Join us there or at the Italian Market Festival on Sunday May 22nd!
la serenissima
The most extraordinary city in the world’s iron covers have entered the collection. See them here.
a DOZEN FROM NYC!
REPRESENTING THE FIVE BOROUGHS. HOW ‘BOUT DEM APPLES!
Coal plates of london
Four from the Industrial Revolution
rethinktank featured on 6 abc’s fyi philly
See minute 13 for the very brief overview of the manhole cover series fabrication process. That process is a bit more entailed than this edited version!
vochos
The 2022 RethinkTANK calendar features a dozen vochos. Download it here for free.
Calling all corbu fans
Le Corbusier’s planned city, Chandigarh is now in the collection.
new trivets: us capitals
Albany, Atlanta, Concord, Dover, Harrisburg, Hartford,
Nashville, Richmond & Trenton
LIsbon
Four manhole cover coasters from The Queen of the Sea just added! Saúde!
YOU GOT SEOUL!
The Special city has entered the Under Cover Series!
miamI, NICE!
FOUR COVERS FROM THE MAGIC CITY!
bravo italia!
Congratulazioni per aver vinto l'Euro Cup 2020
Vive la France!
Tour the major cities of la République:
Toulouse, Marseille, Lyon et Paris bien sûr
PHL wall art featured in billypenn photo
Want it now? Find it at Philadelphia Independents!
Photo credit: KIMBERLY PAYNTER / WHYY
Visit the land of the godfather
OR ELSE!
head on to land down under
Featuring manhole covers from Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney
celebrate the land of the flightless bird
with four coasters from New Zealand: Auckland, Christchurch, Napier & Wellington
calling all anglophiles!
FOUR MANHOLE COVER COASTERS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM: CARDIFF, BELFAST, LONDON & EDINBURGH (FOR NOW)
thank you, georgia!
The Under Cover series has reached 200 unique designs. To celebrate this milestone we have produced Atlanta, Georgia. A classic from Higgins Foundry and ubiquitous on the streets of this now blue city.
Manhole Cover Coasters: Greece
Four cities from the far reaches of the cauldron of democracy: Athens, Corfu, Thessaloniki & Heraklion.
Twin cities manhole coaster set
Tour the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul by going Under Cover
Vote Biden Harris
A vote for Biden is a vote for Harris and vice versa.
the city of light
Paris joins the Under Cover series featuring the ubiquitous Service radial design, Catu, E. Millot and the incredibly ornate Garnier.
it’s official-over 125,000 laundry punchbags sold! a total knockout.
Find them at SuckUK LTD and other fine retailers.
Moscow makes it into the under cover series
Four covers from the capital of Russia
the beauty on the danube
Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia
CHARM CITY TRIVET
Baltimore breaks into the Under Cover Series
NEW FOR 2019:
MANHOLE COVER MAGNETS
COVER THAT INFLATED GRADE WITH PRIDE!
laundry punch bag hits a high mark
over 99,500 units sold! Get yours here
the under cover series visits the southwest
DENVER, LAS VEGAS, PHOENIX & SANTE FE
Deutschland Über alles
Four from the Federal Republic of Germany in the shop
the nyc coaster series and trivets are now available at the cooper hewitt shop
Enjoy the best design exhibitions at the Cooper Hewitt and take a trivet home as a keepsake. See if you can find the "easter egg” within.
Rethinktank’s first pop up!
Under Cover Manhole Coasters and Trivets
This Saturday from 11-1 @ Ali’s Wagon
2017 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Rethinktank in the cph post
Ron Graybill’s article on Copenhagen manhole covers mentions RethinkTANK’s Under Cover series
detroit!
The motor city joins the under cover series
Don't mess with texas
The Under Cover series visits the Lone Star state!
the first retailer to embrace the under cover project is philadelphia independents!
And of course they are because that is what they do. See an exciting array of Philadelphia locally crafted wares at Philadelphia Independents. Visit Olde City and find your Jawn.
Kon'nichiwa
Lose yourself in the land where manhole cover art is at its zenith. The Tokyo set includes Cherry Blossoms, Ladybug Flower, Ginkgos Galore and Spiral Frog. Get them for a Japanophiliac!
California dreaming?
Manhole covers from San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco
HIt the shore this summer
New coaster set featuring the South Jersey Shore which includes Avalon, Cape May, Ocean City & Wildwood
"the place where young people go to retire"
Portland, Oregon is the newest member of the Under Cover series
NYC IS MAD FOR THE UNDERCOVER SERIES
THE MUSEUM OF ART AND DESIGN HAVE ACQUIRED THE NYC STREET SERIES FOR THEIR STORE. ALL SALES GO TO SUPPORT THE CRAFT MECCA
rEYKYAVIK HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE COLLECTION
ÞETTA REDDAST
the city has arrived
Four covers from the City by the Bay, San Francisco
tHE uNDER COVER SERIES IS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE GORSHIN TRADING POST & SUPPLIES
Visit the man-cave in bucolic Haddonfield, New Jersey and ask to see the speakeasy in the back. Way cool shop.
The philadelphia phever coaster series and trivets are now available at the philadelphia museum of art.
All purchases at the PMA Store benefit the museum's operations and extraordinary cultural collection, so show some brotherly love and pick up a set.
see the 6ix coasters and trivets at The art gallery of ontario.
Visit the AGO in Toronto to purchase them; just not at 5am.
find the philly phever series and trivets at The fabric workshop and museum
See unique contemporary art and take a set home as a keepsake. All proceeds benefit the FWM.
the new york post rates the under cover nyc trivet a best gift for diehard new yorkers
And the NY Post is number 20
Find philly phever coaster sets and trivets @ vix emporium
Take a street car to 50th and Baltimore Avenue. Ask VIX how they got their name.
DC Display and trivets now available at the national building museum in washington dc
Take Amtrak down the Northeast Corridor and visit the NBM. The building is one of the four great rooms of DC. Can you name the other three?
NYC Streets coaster sets and manhattan trivets now @ the tenement museum in NYC
The NYC street series is based on the manhole covers within walking distance from the Tenement Museum.