Abstract
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 The Atlantic. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shipping-container-9781501303142/#sthash.cUAjcU51.dpuf
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shipping-container-9781501303142/#sthash.cUAjcU51.dpuf
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781501303166, 9781501303159 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781501303142 |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Jan 2016 |
Publication series
| Name | Object Lessons |
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| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- cultural and media studies
- design cultures
- cultural geography
- shipping container
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Craig Martin
- Edinburgh College of Art - Personal Chair of Interdisciplinary Design Studies
- Design
- Centre for Historical Reconstruction Research
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