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 sighthellip;. 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 Martins book illuminates the "development of containerizationdagger;?-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.
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