Paper Play: Puzzles

I am determined to get an interactive and organic side into this project and I feel this can be achieved in how the work is presented. Having looked at the Rubick's website and been inspired by my keychain Rubick's cube I was convinced that I could create a puzzle that the end user could decipher and unfold to display artwork. My dream is that the puzzle would unravel the layers of multiple personalities that the pictured person had created to reveal their true self. 

This initial design process was intended to create an interactive cube, that displayed a complete picture across each complete side, and allow the user to mix these pictures up to create a unique and new face design with each flip of a cube. 

Although fun and challenging, this is extremely hard to complete, with industry standard cutting needed and revolutionary pivoting designs on the corners of the cubes to achieve what I really wanted. As you can see in the images the cubes that I created came pretty close to achieving my initial dream puzzle, but all signs were that this was too complicated, and so I moved onto a new 2D puzzle design. 

I had recently seen a flyer design that blew my mind, it was an endless fold design that had 4 separate images that folded around each other with seemingly impossible folds. So I set about trying to re-create this image in my head and produce a net design that would allow me to do this. Here is what I came up with, this is an advanced prototype believe it or not, with the first outcomes being made out of separate parts, this is made out of one piece of A4.

Using the images that I created for an initial project exploring alter-egos I printed out the design onto one piece of A4 And created the below puzzle, which working from left to right in both rows shows the journey through 4 separate images that fold endlessly into each other. I really think this is a unique idea and tool to use to display my work and intrigue the user into play with my work.