Poser Chess Set
A Chess Board That Transforms Into a Wall-Mounted Display
The chess board is designed to be displayed proudly on a wall between games.
The biggest design challenge was scale: the full board needed to be roughly 20 inches by 20 inches, which was too large for a single print bed. That meant breaking the entire board and every piece into printable sections, then reassembling them with 96 embedded magnets.
The Journey
Ideation → Prototyping → Execution
Ideation
Early sketches and concept exploration — early inspiration from a magnetic wall-mounted chess set, which I wanted to combine with the satisfying nature of a wall-sized regulation chess set.
Prototyping
Testing every connector, hinge, and mechanism individually before committing to a full print run.
Execute
All 46 individual pieces were tracked on a Google Sheet and printed, then assembled using 96 embedded magnets to keep every piece correctly oriented when posed out from the wall.
