Special coverage of the 2011 International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago, host to 2000 exhibitors of consumer goods for the home. Follow along as we track down the coolest stuff on display!
Live Coverage Sponsored by the IHA.
Steve Catechi, VP of AMAC Plastics, tells our favorite kind of story, one that links the particularities of manufacturing to its cultural reverberations. AMAC boxes not only permeate our everyday lives, but have also been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and were Andy Warhol's box of choice for his piece at the Ten from Leo Castelli show in New York.
Listen to Catechi's brief history of the AMAC box in the video above.
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Anyone have any insight as to how these are molded? Zero draft angles and zero radii. The complete opposite of traditional injection molding.