Innovations in cardboard boxes come along about as often as innovations in mouse traps, or perhaps even less. But designer Patrick Sung thinks you can make a better cardboard box, and if you pay attention, you might even be able to make the same box twice.

The Universal Packaging System or UPACKS, is a flat sheet of corrugated cardboard with triangulated perforations that allow it to fold around unusual shapes. The UPACKS system could also be used as internally inside other boxes to protect goods as they are shipped, and as a replacement for Styrofoam peanuts or other plastic packing materials. Sure the UPACKS system might be ideal for protecting valuable, irregular-shaped objects, but those oblong corrugated blobs don't make for very efficient stacking.  For traditionalists, however, the box can also be bent into rectangular forms for stacking and shipping.

H/T: Yanko Design; Inhabitat