Challenge 1: Inspiration Board

⏱️ ~1–2 hrs

Creativity loves a plan. Start strong by gathering inspiration and shaping it into a clear direction before you build.

Overview

Your task: Create a visual Mood Board for your puzzle box.

Mood Board: images, sketches, or collages that communicate tone, style, and mechanics.

What to Do (3 Steps)

Identify Sources of Inspiration

Explore puzzles, furniture, toys, architecture, and natural patterns—look beyond puzzle boxes.

Collect Materials

Save images, sketches, screenshots, CAD examples, or your own photos of real-world objects.

Build the Mood Board

Condense materials into a single page/collage that shows tone, style, and mechanics.

What to Submit

One PDF file containing:

The Mood Board

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Why do this?

Turn chaos into concept — transform scattered references into a cohesive visual direction.
Reusable asset — your board becomes reference material for the whole build process.

Scoring (Total: 100 pts)

Creativity

Inspiration sources are unique, varied, and clearly influence the design direction.

30 pts

Clarity

Mood board is easy to understand and visually/verbally cohesive.

30 pts

Connection to Materials

Authentic collection of inspirational materials is expressed.

40 pts

Challenge 1: Manufacturing Mastery

Challenge 1: Inspiration Board

Overview

What to Do (3 Steps)

Identify Sources of Inspiration

Collect Materials

Build the Mood Board

What to Submit

Why do this?

Scoring (Total: 100 pts)

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Challenge 1: Manufacturing Mastery

Overview

What to Do (3 Steps)

Identify Sources of Inspiration

Collect Materials

Build the Mood Board

What to Submit

Why do this?

Scoring (Total: 100 pts)

Create a New Submission