Flipcharts that will make you go wild. Or ideas on equal footing.

Anyone who has ever written or drawn on a flipchart knows this – at least if it's one of those "ordinary" flipcharts that are, unfortunately, still so widespread: First, it has to be set up. Assuming it's not so heavy and bulky that you can hardly move it anyway, you still have to adjust each of the three legs to a height that allows you to work comfortably later. The adjustment screws or locking mechanisms are usually located at the very bottom of the feet, and it looks quite comical when you kneel down and lift the flipchart slightly with one hand to extend the telescopic legs with the other – even more so if one of them is stuck or won't lock at all. It gets even funnier if the flipchart also has extremely smooth-rolling casters.

At least with such a small, lighthearted slapstick routine, you'll capture your audience's attention. And now you can really get started. With a flourish, you put the first line or drawing on paper, and the participants join in so enthusiastically that you've soon filled the entire sheet from top to bottom. Although the bottom part is proving a bit of a struggle for everyone. You have to kneel down so that the writing is still legible. And even then, your audience still can't read it—except for those sitting right at the front.

So the hilarious height-adjusting begins all over again. Perhaps someone will take pity on you and lend a hand, perhaps the markers won't fall this time, for once… – and yet, in moments like these, you think that flipcharts could be different, no, should be different.

And you come up with the most amazing ideas: Height-adjustable like a school blackboard, easy to transport. Angled or vertical, set up, hung up. In portrait or even landscape format. On a continuous roll like a film strip. Or a flipchart that can also be used as a small conference table and written on directly. These are the kinds of ideas you have, and you think: Something like this should exist.

On the other hand, you might think: that would be completely uncharted territory.
And you are right twice over…

Editorial team: Neuland
Illustrations: Thies Thiessen

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