This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Cardboard Shipping Box
In the not so distant future, we’ll be saying, “remember when cardboard boxes were square or rectangular?”. Designer Partick Sung has developed a new type of shipping….”container”, a flat piece of recycled corrugated cardboard called the Universal Packaging System or UPS. No, it is not from that UPS, but the logo is pretty close and threw me off at first.
The design of the sheet of cardboard has groves in it to help make folding the sheet around almost anything you can think of. Since the cardboard would conform to the shape of the item you are packing, there would be less space and less wasted material. My main concern would still be padding and security of the item with in. Can you imaging a moving light being shipped in the UPS box? It would look a little funny at first I think.
What do you think? Think Patrick Sung has a good idea? I would love to hear what you think in the comments of this article.
Thanks Yanko Design!
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By: Carl_BMI
I gotta say… destroyed. Given what the freight companies can already do to a double wall C over B flute cardboard box… I cannot imagine that shipping anything but the most durable and robust products in this packaging would end well. I’d give it an A+ for creativity but you loose the green effects if you have to ship the product twice. Neat concept, but not a practical application.
By: CHRIS
i wonder if this is going to raise the cost of shipping? shipping costs are based on how much can fit in the truck, so with a bunch of non square items you are going to use more space and fit less in the truck. just a thought
By: Karl
It seems like a good idea for internal wrapping but most shipping companies are still going to ultimately need some sort of rectangular shape that can be stacked and piled on a pallet. Irregular shapes require too much manual labour. Now, for set construction or large props on stage this could be a very interesting building material.