The Shipping Container landingpage layout with typography and clean grid layout (design by Nahuel Gerth)

The Shipping Container

The Shipping Container is an infographic website on the topic of containerization. The website layout is focused on creating a storytelling narrative based on a flowchart.

The process of containerization is one of the main driving forces of globalization and international trade as we know them today. With the introduction of a uniformed and normed system of container transportation a century old problem for shipping had been solved and the basic condition for large-scaled world trade was initiated.

When was the last time you were driving behind a truck carrying a container? And didn’t you wonder: What is inside all of these containers? Anything you use, buy, consume—even the device you are using now—was part of a worldwide logistical network of intermodal transport. Containers carry a range of products from food and fresh produce to electronic equipment and paper. They have become part of our lives and culture. They are used and repurposed in many ways. 2020—2021

  • Information Design
  • Webdesign
  • Storytelling
The Shipping Container mobile layout view, landingpage and TEU information graphic (design by Nahuel Gerth)
Information graphic of a TEU (twenty foot equivalent unit) embedded in a flowchart web layout (design by Nahuel Gerth)
Information graphic of a TEU (twenty foot equivalent unit) embedded in a flowchart web layout (design by Nahuel Gerth)
Flowchart webdesign layout about the historical development of cargo freight (design by Nahuel Gerth)
Infographic visualising the cargo goods of the Kipling from 1960 (design by Nahuel Gerth)
Infographic visualising the leading container ship operators in 2020 based on the number of ships in their fleets (design by Nahuel Gerth)
Infographic visualising the types of goods moved in containers through the Port of Montreal in 2016 (design by Nahuel Gerth)
Flowchart webdesign layout about the architectural use of shipping containers (design by Nahuel Gerth)
The Shipping Container sources and further reading (design by Nahuel Gerth)