Wow! Thank you for this, Karen! I've only skimmed thru part of it, but it looks quite interesting. I'm also sending this to my brother, who is an assemblage artist. I have also found the book on The Life of Groceries and it's in my Amazon cart.
I also want to point out that I know for a fact that I am not the only origamist or paper artist who has a collection of interestingly designed and folded container boxes. I have been known to buy a product (not too expensive of course!) just for the pretty or interesting box it comes in. I have also been known to express more appreciation for the box a gift came in than the gift itself. ... Best! from Chila /// ---------------------------------------------- Chilagami - I think, therefore I fold; I fold, therefore I am Folding for Fun in Northern Arizona, USA [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 11:52 AM Karen Reeds via Origami < [email protected]> wrote: > 10/27/2023 > > I just came across this thought-provoking essay by Justus Nieland, > "Container Culture: Film, Packaging, and the Design of Corporate Humanism > at the CCA." online open-access magazine, *Post45*, Issue 6: Midcentury > Design Cultures, 02.12.21.anism at the CCA > <https://post45.org/2021/02/container-culture-film-packaging-and-the-design-of-corporate-humanism-at-the-cca/> > > https://post45.org/2021/02/container-culture-film-packaging-and-the-design-of-corporate-humanism-at-the-cca/ > > The folded/cut paperboard containers that surround us usually get taken > for granted. Origami folks are also likely to see them as raw material for > our own paperfolding. This fascinating essay reveals the connections > between World War II packaging innovations, modernist Bauhaus designers > (eg Moholy-Nagy, Kepes), and changes in corporate culture in late 20th C > America. > Includes Video clips from the industrial films by Rhodes Patterson, The > Packaging System (1963) and others, and lots of fascinating illustrations, > with occasional glimpses of folded/cut paper designs. > > By chance I also had just read the equally interesting few pages on the > history of corrugated cardboard and cardstock boxes in *The Secret > History of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of American Supermarkets*, by > Benjamin Lorr (2020), pp 26-28. > > Karen > Karen Reeds > Princeton Public Library Origami Group [on pandemic hiatus] > Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/ > > from Karen Reeds > [email protected] >
