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