Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Client: Fine Office Furniture,
Inc.
Target Consumer:
Ages
3+
Designer: Buck
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.
Inc.
Target Consumer:
Ages
3+
Designer: Buck
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.