This amazing article was accompanied by a 14-part template for rebuilding the map. A puzzle, so to speak! But as paper is not very suitable for puzzles, I wanted to reinforce it. As the card segments were also printed with information on the back, I decided to make a kind of sandwich out of acrylic glass. This protected the card parts and yet you could read both sides. Sliding the parts together also worked much better.

I ordered custom-fit acrylic glass blanks on the Internet, coated them with a spray adhesive and pressed everything together firmly. This resulted in 8 triangular and 6 square puzzle pieces.

I had already put so much effort into making the parts, so I wanted to present them appropriately. My head was buzzing with a folding box in which I could store the parts together with the original article from the magazine.

Thought - done! I found an old wooden box in my cupboard, which I first painted brown. Small, glued-in pieces of wood formed the holders for the puzzle shapes. I glued blue felt to the bottom of the box as protection.

I stuck the article cover picture of the inventor of Dymaxion World - Buckminster Fuller - on the box lid. I also cut the original LIFE Magazine logo with the year of publication out of the magazine and stuck it on as well.

As I had this issue twice, I also had the article twice. This should also be kept in the box. I bought a felt bag for it in the shop - unfortunately in grey. As I had already made a kind of puzzle mat from dark green velvet fabric (folded next to the puzzle pieces), I decided to colour the grey felt with dark green acrylic paint.  Now it just looked more harmonious!

The variable arrangement of the pieces creates new world maps and turns the puzzle into a moving map! Some of these different representations you find in the original article: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World