Shipping Container (Object Lessons)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (613 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501303147 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. 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. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifull
He is the co-editor, with J. . Rugg, of Spatialities: The Geographies of Art & Architecture (2011). Craig Martin is Senior Lecturer in Design Cultures at The University of Edinburgh, UK
Five Stars VERY HAPPY, THANKS. Five Stars These are great little books. Very informative.
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?'). Filled with fascinating details and conveyed in sharp, accessible prose, the books make the everyday world come to life. "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. More substantive is Bloomsbury's collection of small, gorgeously designed books that delve into