Exciting challenge to win £250!

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Exciting challenge to win £250!

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We have an exciting competition for all of you origami gurus! If you are passionate about origami, if you like designing new things and have the technical know-how, you are more than welcome to participate and earn £250!

The Challenge:

Design an expandable/contractable box, any size you want. Keep in mind that we are going to use very heavy-duty cardboard when we assemble it ourselves, so you should take this into consideration. The box should have the following features:

- Expandable and contractable in both width and height.
- No more than 6 separate parts/pieces (the less, the better)
- Durable in both modes
- Easy to expand and contract
- Easy to assemble
- Simple and elegant design
- Flat bottom
- You are NOT allowed to use glue.
- You are allowed to use nuts and bolts.

Submission requirements:

Please send your designs as a PDF file to gdragiev1@gmail.com

The PDF file should include:

- Detailed drawing of the design (each piece should be drawn separately and sizes should be given)
- At least 4 pictures of the ready product (expanded and contracted)
- Detailed description of how to assemble the box
- Detailed description of how the box expands and contracts

Each participant is allowed to submit no more than 5 different designs. The more designs you submit, the greater your chance to win!

The deadline of your submissions is 12/09/2016

After this date we will review all the designs and we will announce the winner on Sunday 18/09/2016 by 19:00pm. The winner will be announced here on the forum and he/she will be contacted by email. We are going to use the same e-mail address you used to submit your designs.
The payment will be either by cheque or by paypal, whichever is more convenient for you.
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This sounds interesting. Do you intend to use one of the designs in a commercial setting?
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Gerardo wrote:This sounds interesting. DO you intend to use one of the designs in a commercial setting?
Yes I'm interested in learning that as well. This seems sort of less like a competition and more like they didn't want to commission an engineer or professional artist like Lang to design it.
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This is absolutely a tough challenge, considering the time... I think the given date for the deadline is too early :(
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greencube07 wrote:This is absolutely a tough challenge, considering the time... I think the given date for the deadline is too early :(
Definitely, considering the thickness of the paper and that TWO dimensions have to change
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Do you intent on telling the purpose of this challenge? It seems like someone may take advantage on one's work. I shall recommend you to be quite transparent with your intentions.
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Couldn't you just use the boxes they sell for moving. They are thick cardboard and flat foldable. Although not in both dimensions. Still this sounds indeed as cheap way for a company too get some nice boxes.

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No one is putting a firearm to anyone's head to do this. If you don't like it don't do it. 250 euros might not sound like much to you to sell a design, but it might sound like a lot to someone who doesn't have 250 Euros.

That's assuming the little dohicky before the 250 is indeed a Euro symbol. Could be a kopek symbol for all I know. Stupid American here.
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That's the symbol for pounds steingar. And I agree, I do wish to know if it will be used in a commercial setting but I'm not critizicing the initiative per se.

I've been thinking about it a little and I don't think I'd be able to make it with less than 10 separate parts; that's four more than the minimum requirement.
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Hi guys,

Thank you so much for your responses and I would like to apologize for the late reply. Given your comments, it seems that I haven't taken into consideration many aspects of an origami making, given that I don't have any experience. So far, I have received two models, from Hyun Seok Kang and Charles Santee. I loved both designs, but Charles' model seems more viable for what I am trying to make.

Charles is a very passionate origami master who I felt has a strong moral values and a genuine interest in supporting the beautiful art of origami making. As per his request, there is a link below t his work and I would like to let you all know that the challenge prize funds will be donated to a charity of his choice - The British Origami Society.

The idea of producing an expandable/collapsible box/case that can sustain different meteorologic conditions on a daily basis do seem challenging. That's why I decided to keep the challenge alive and maybe create a community around it, so feel free to submit ideas and ask questions.

Here is the link to Charles' work: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ja4ala81ddsxv ... x.pdf?dl=0

Thank you all!

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Congratulations Charles! And what a nice thing to do with the money :).

PS: Damn... I thought that the "no more than six separate parts" meant segments free of edges and creases in the finished box :P.
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:)
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firstfold, do you know what's the purpose of the box? I'm really curious about it :).
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