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Shipping Container

Object Lessons


  • Bloomsbury Academic
  • by Craig Martin
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?

ISBN 9781501303142 | E | PB
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Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 9781501303142
Author(s) Craig Martin
Publication date March 2016
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 165 x 121 mm
Illustrations 8 bw.ill.
Pages 160
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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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.