Re: [Origami] Origami history, tangentially -- a media/design history of the cardboard box and the Container Corporation of America (CCA)

[Chila Caldera via Origami]

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

chilag...@gmail.com

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On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 11:52 AM Karen Reeds via Origami <
origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> 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/
>
> 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
>

[Origami] Origami history, tangentially -- a media/design history of the cardboard box and the Container Corporation of America (CCA)

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

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/

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