Shipping Container (Object Lessons)

Shipping Container (Object Lessons)

<p>Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. </p><p>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 <i>direct </i>contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the €œdevelopment of containerization€-including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.</p><p>Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the <i>The Atlantic.</i></p>