Shipping Container (Object Lessons)
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501303147 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Rugg, of Spatialities: The Geographies of Art & Architecture (2011). He is the co-editor, with J. Craig Martin is Senior Lecturer in Design Cultures at The University of Edinburgh, UK
More substantive is Bloomsbury's collection of small, gorgeously designed books that delve into their subjects in much more depth." Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing. Filled with fascinating details and conveyed in sharp, accessible prose, the books make the everyday world come to life. 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, beautiful books about everyday objects from shipping containers to toast. The Atlantic hosts a collection of "mini object-lessons", brief essays th
ROB WENZEL said Five Stars. VERY HAPPY, THANKS. "Five Stars" according to John C. Wilson. These are great little books. Very informative.
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…. 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.. 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. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it