Shipping Container

by Craig Martin

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501303147
• ISBN13: 9781501303142
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 6.4"