Today’s Solutions: December 16, 2025

Viupax wastes significantly less cardboard and occupies a smaller volume than traditional shoe boxes. Viupax—a shoe box that creator Andreas Kioroglou, founder of design studio Matadog Design, hopes will help save the planet—uses 20 to 57% less material than traditional cardboard shoe boxes. The innovative shoe box is designed to be stackable, meaning that in additional to being better for the environment, it also allows shoes to take up less room in owners’ closets. The box

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