Puzzle Design Challange Brief
Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer: 3+
Designer: Pagliari
Problem Statement: A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of scrap 3/4" hardwood cubes that result from its furniture construction processes. The material is expensive, and the scrap represent a sizeable loss of profit.
Design Statement: Fine Office Furniture, Inc. would like to return value to its waste product by using it as the raw material for desktop novelty items that will be sold on the showroom floor. Design, build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle system that is made from the scrap hardwood cubes. The puzzle system must provide an appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or older.
Criteria:
1. The puzzle must be fabricated
from 27 – ¾”hardwood cubes.
2. The puzzle system must contain exactly
five puzzle pieces.
3. Each individual puzzle piece must consist of at
least four, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to
each other.
4. No two puzzle pieces can be the same.
5. The five
puzzle pieces must assemble to form a 2 ¼” cube.
6. Some puzzle parts
should interlock.
Puzzel Cube Research