Clipboard is designed as a tool for creatives to use during the brainstorming phase of a project. It offers users a customizable space to lay out their work, allowing one to view multiple pages at once, or just focus on one. The clipping function allows users to pause their work if they need, and come back later to find it exactly the way they left it.
This project was made in response to Robert P. Crease's essay Foucault Pendulum in Sherry Turkle's book Evocative Objects. The Foucault Pendulum is introduced as an unsettling object which brings anxiety to those who try to understand it. The pendulum acts as a tool that allows the user to see the Earth turn. The idea of willing a shift in one's frame of mind so completely out of their own perspective is a strong theme in the essay. Combined with the anxiety that comes with attempting something essentially impossible, the author's challenge of the Foucault Pendulum relates to many other's.
People who are drafting ideas are constantly under the stress of trying to solve large, complex problems that are known to be unsolvable. As creative people question and break down problems in order to combat them, the pressures involved in the futility of the process can become daunting. This is where Clipboard comes in.
