Shipping Container

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight.... 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the "development of containerization"-including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Year Published:
2016
Country of Publication:
United States
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781501303142
Number of Pages:
160
Publication Date:
10/03/2016
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Series:
Object Lessons
Authors:
Martin, Dr. Craig (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Illustrations Note:
8 b/w illustrations
Publication Date:
10/03/2016
Place of Publication:
New York
SKU:
9781501303142

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