Artfully Imagined
Blue Kazoo is a premium jigsaw puzzle company that focuses on a few favorite 1,000-piece puzzles at a time, artfully designed and conscientiously crafted.
We operate with 3 simple aspirations...
Meticulous Design
Perfect Production
Over-the-top Customer Care
Design-first Puzzle Approach
Our puzzle philosophy is simple and perhaps a bit unconventional.
We start with the box.
We begin with what you experience first — the packaging.
And then everything from there to the last piece put in place must be an absolute delight before we’ll let a puzzle design come to life as a Blue Kazoo puzzle.
With this as our guiding principle...
We make puzzles that are satisfying to construct and beautiful in your home.
And we have fun doing it.
(...most of the time.)
Who We Are
Blue Kazoo was started by Josh Sowin and Abraham Piper.
As business partners and friends for over 15 years, Abraham Piper and Josh Sowin decided...
— Whoa! Hang on. Stop. —
That sentence was already boring. How about a quick story instead:
They once challenged strangers in a 4th-floor office across the street to a Post-It-note war by creating an 11-foot long Nyan cat.
The strangers won the war immediately.
So where else could Josh and Abraham put to use their visceral distaste for boredom and apparently abundant free time?
What next venture could possibly offer an opportunity to make something as simple, stunning, and just plain fun as a sticky-note kitty?
Now their love of creative absurdity and ridiculous perfectionism can run free. And, as it turns out, these traits actually make for good puzzles and happy customers.
Over time, we’ve grown to a team of seven...
Our product manager Xin keeps the Blue Kazoo machine in smooth operating order. Lucy and Greg will do anything for the gram, so they’re over social. As the resident brain, Jeremy is in charge of data and marketing. And when you reach out to us, Shannon is the lovely voice at the other end of the line. (Metaphorically speaking — Who makes phone calls anymore?)
All the while, Josh and Abraham continue to dream up puzzles. And occasionally they even decide to make one. As long as it looks good on the box.
Our Puzzles
Starry Wave
A Fine Art Mashup — Two of the most famous and beloved pieces of art in the world...combined.
Stunning to look at and just plain fun to put together.
The EARTH Series
The EARTH Series is our most gorgeous and exhilarating puzzle series yet. 1,000-piece circle Earth, Moon, Sun Jigsaw puzzles.
Blue Kazoo is a remote team, but we consider ourselves co-headquartered in Los Angeles and Minneapolis, Josh and Abraham’s hometowns.