Using AI to have a bit of fun creating puzzles

Happy birthday card in the form of a 35 piece jigsaw. West Highland Terrier in the style of Van Gogh

It’s possible to use AI to have a bit of fun creating jigsaw puzzle designs. This post describes the immortalisation of some of Scotland’s favourite animals by favourite artists – please don’t take this too seriously!

The Joy of the Unexpected

35 piece good luck jigsaw puzzle "Good Luck Hedgehog"

Sometimes the strangest things can spark a new design. It can be a chance remark, or, in the case of lucky hedgehogs, custom made holes in our boundary fence to allow unfettered passage to our spiny friends.

Capturing AI for graphic design

Happy Birthday 35 piece Jigsaw Greeting in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

AI has been the focus of much vitriol in the media in the last couple of years. However, carefully and honestly used, AI can help a small business create designs easily and quickly, and to a level of skill quite unattainable in any other circumstances. We’ve used AI to create a range of art-lover birthday puzzles.

Strange Requests

Dog Sitting: A high quality 35-piece personalised jigsaw puzzle, from our Pet and animal lovers range, gift boxed and delivered to your door by Jigsaiz

Although Jigsaiz now has more than 700 designs available, we’re often asked for something we don’t have. Bears of all kinds? You’d think so, but where’s Australia’s favourite? And how about Happy Birthday from the Dog? Well, we’ve got you covered …

The Wonders of Adobe Photoshop’s “Colorize” Neural Filter

Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst : A high quality 35-piece jigsaw puzzle, from our Women's empowerment, inspirational women in history range, gift boxed and delivered to your door by Jigsaiz

Part of the art of creating effective jigsaw puzzles with a message is making sure that the image itself speaks to the puzzler. In our “inspiring women” series, we used Adobe Photoshop’s Colorize Neural Filter to bring 100 year old images to life.

Small Jigsaw, Big Message

Small greetings jigsaws are an ideal way to deliver big messages, because often these big messages resonate most with individuals. International Women’s Day is an ideal time to celebrate amazing women everywhere.

Small is beautiful

Tartan 80th birthday card in the form of a 35 piece jigsaw puzzle

Jigsaiz puzzles are small, have 35 pieces, and are about 5″ by 7″ when built. This post describes how we made sure our customers understand that our puzzles are primarily for adults and older children, not small kids!

So, what is a jigsaw puzzle greeting card anyway?

Bear Hug : A high quality 35-piece personalised jigsaw puzzle, from our Love; friendship and encouragement; friendship general range, gift boxed and delivered to your door by Jigsaiz

Jigsaiz jigsaw puzzles are different. For the recipient, the message has to come as a surprise, but the need then to have no guide picture on the box presented us as designers with some challenges. This post is about how we addressed these, and produced a product that maintains the element of surprise!