Puzzle cube design Brief
Client
Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target consumer
Ages 12+
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 process. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents a sizable 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 twelve years of age or older.
Constraints
- The puzzle must be fabricated from 27, 3/4" hardwood cubes.
- The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle pieces.
- Each individual puzzle piece must consist of at least four, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
- No two puzzle pieces can be the same shape.
- Puzzle pieces cannot be in the shape of a rectangle, "L", or a square.
- The five puzzle pieces must assemble to form a 2 1/4" cube.
- Some puzzle parts should interlock.
procedure
First we made a prototype.....
Explain the prototype process you did with pictures of cube assembled and individual pieces. |
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Next, I produced isometric and multiview drawings of.....
Here you should describe the line types you learned and used. I'm looking for words like.... Tonal Shading, object lines, hidden lines, and so on.... |