Shipping Container: Object Lessons - Softcover

Martin, Dr. Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501303147 ISBN 13: 9781501303142

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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A unique exploration of the design, material history and hidden lives of an object that is central to the development of our consumer society.

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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).

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1501303147
• ISBN 13: 9781501303142
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland