Shipping Container (Object Lessons)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501303147 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Craig Martin is Senior Lecturer in Design Cultures at The University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the co-editor, with J. Rugg, of Spatialities: The Geographies of Art & Architecture (2011)
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…. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. 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 Th
"The Object Lessons series achieves something very close to magic: the books take ordinaryeven banalobjects and animate them with a rich history of invention, political struggle, science, and popular mythology. The Atlantic hosts a collection of "mini object-lessons", brief essays that take a deeper look at things we generally only glance upon ('Is bread toast only insofar as a human toaster perceives it to be "done?" Is bread toast when it reaches some specific level of nonenzymatic browning?'). Be warned: once you've read a few of these, you'll start walking around your house, picking up random objects, and musing aloud: 'I wonder what the story is behind this thing?'"Steven Johnson, best-selling author of How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World"The Object Lessons project, edited by game theory legend Ian Bogost and cultural studies academic Christopher Schaberg, commissions short essays and small,
Five Stars VERY HAPPY, THANKS. Five Stars John C. Wilson These are great little books. Very informative.