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 karenmre...@gmail.com
