Shipping container
By: Craig Martin
Series: Object lessons; Object lessons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781501303142
Subjects: Unitized cargo systems; Containerization
Description: "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."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A tight stow; title: Teu; title: The rise of the world-object; title: Breaking the seal; title: Conclusion : cargotecture and distribution futures.