Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer: Ages 3+
Designer: Barrios
Problem Statement: A local office furniture manufacturing
company throws
away tens of thousands of scrap ¾” hardwood cubes that result from its furniture
construction processes. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents 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.
company throws
away tens of thousands of scrap ¾” hardwood cubes that result from its furniture
construction processes. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents 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.