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Shipping Container
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Artikel-Nr:
9781501303142
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.03.2016
Seiten:
160
Autor:
Craig Martin
Gewicht:
149 g
Format:
165x120x17 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Craig Martin is Reader in Design Studies in the School of Design at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he teaches on the postgraduate Design for Change programme. He is the author of Deviant Design (Bloomsbury, 2022), Shipping Container (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor, with J. Rugg, of Spatialities (2011).
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.
A unique exploration of the design, material history and hidden lives of an object that is central to the development of our consumer society.
Looks at the influence of the shipping container in popular culture, from TV shows such as The Wire to the lyrics of Fall songs
1. Introduction: Packaging Stuff2. 20 x 40 x 8 feet: Design and Development of a Global Object3. Twist Lock: Global Object of Capitalism4. Breaking the Seal: Illicit Lives of the Container5. Four Walls: Container Afterlives:6. Conclusion: Global Object to ComeIndex