It's 3:47am on a Monday morning in the studio that never sleeps... We have just finished another laser jacket for Bono and are already working on the next outfit. Below a picture of our beautiful new flex boards, made with our new printing technique...

Bono wearing new Waldemeyer laser creation

Last night U2 got their new tour under way with a magnificent show at Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium. Every aspect of the show was full of innovative concepts and details, including the stage costumes.

For the encore Bono was dressed in a black leather jacket featuring my latest wearable effects concept: 240 lasers along the silhouette extended Bono's every move all the way across the audience.

Keep watching this space and the 360 tour, there may be more surprises to come...

Intern position available

There is a free intern position in the studio for a curious design (engineering) student or graduate. You should have some 3D and visualization skills (e.g. Solidworks, Illustrator, Photoshop, 3D Studio Max). Some model building skills are handy and electronics and microcontroller experience is a big plus.

You will get involved in some of the world's most unusual design projects, from interactive light projects to rock n' roll and fashion.

Send your CV to moritz (at) waldemeyer (dot) com.

Gaggenau new spaces 05 is dedicating 6 pages to my work...

Mark magazine has a great article on the philosophy behind our work in its current issue (Issue 20). It's a beautiful magazine and it is really worth while to get your own copy. Just in case you can't find it, have a look at the article here.

We just came back from the Venice Art Biennale and absolutely loved it this year; great art in the most beautiful locations and many surprising encounters...

Paul Smith and Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic just unveiled a five foot 'rabbit bin' whose ears light up whenever rubbish is deposited in it, as part of the Design Museum Super Contempary Exhibition in Covent Garden. When it comes to light up ears, I'm always happy to help out. In this case the ears are illuminated by an array of amber LEDs that create a simple 'ear' animation whenever an IR sensor senses activity in the bin.

Here are a few images of what must be the design world's most elaborate and technically advanced  invitation ever. Each guest received a small mirrored box containing a tiny LED display which scrolled the text of the invitation including the date and location of the private Flos dinner.

At the dinner the guests received the catalogue with a square cut-out in which the mirrored box was held with invisible magnets.

This design required the most sophisticated electronic design of all our projects so far. Click here to find more information about this invite and the Flos|Baccarat|Starck|Holzer|Waldemeyer project.

Only 40 of these invitations were ever sent out to a very select group of individuals, which interestingly makes the invitation an even more exclusive and rare object than the Haaa!!! and Hooo!!! lamps themselves...

This morning the Salone del Mobile opened where we show a new jewelry project for the furniture manufacturer Campeggi. "Heartbeat" is a new concept of invisible jewelry that is worn underneath your shirt, hiding the object completely from view. It uses the fabric as a projection surface to create smooth animations and accentuate the fashion of the wearer.

Please drop by stand C15 in exhibition hall 12 to see "Heartbeat" and Campeggi's range of innovative furniture.

Tonight Flos is presenting Philippe Starck's amazing new lamps HOOO!!! and HAAA!!! Featuring hand made crystal by Baccarat, with text by Jenny Holzer I had the honour to add electronic displays to what is probably the most extraordinary collaborative project in design history.

The presentation is as exclusive as the objects themselves: a private dinner for 40 guests at the Flos showroom in Milano.

The most innovative design studio in the world today!

We are doing extremely well in the Icon 20/20 poll! A big thank you to everybody who has voted and if you haven't done so please keep voting!

Vote for me!

Icon has published the 20/20 issue with a list of people who are making the future. It includes 20 designers and 20 architects who are changing the way we work and think about our disciplines. 

There is an online vote, so please show some European patriotism and help me beat the American web developers in the popular vote!

Finally some pictures of an architecture and interior project that we've been working on for a while: This is a conversion of a typical London Victorian house. It started out as a small one-bedroom flat in the top half of the house. 

The roof was extended to add two more bedrooms and a small bathroom. We also removed a wall in the living area to create a larger open space. 

And finally the kitchen was completely  redesigned to create a more usable space with a custom kitchen installation and a large 200 year old kitchen table. The entire kitchen was created with three main materials: Corian, plywood and Bisazza mosaic. Even though the surface materials are very up-market, the budget for the entire installation was more Ikea sized.

This brings us to a very frequent question: what tech stuff to you have in your own house? We try to keep it as simple as possible: A fibre optic internet connection and Wifi takes care of all data traffic and allows entertainment to run on a MacBook or iPhone. Sound is being catered for by the Tivoli radio in the kitchen or the speaker in the book shelf and that's pretty much it...

iPhone back from the dead!

One of our iPhones went for a diving adventure a few days ago. As you would expect after taking some water on board, it died in my very hands and from past experience with a Sony Ericcson phone this should have been the end of this story. 

Well, one shouldn't give up that quickly and after reading about some miracles on the internet there was just one way forward: one hour in the oven at 50 degrees C, then charging the completely empty battery and guess what: the phone made a complete recovery!

Being part of the panel to find the year's best designs is not an easy task. This year I suggested Make magazine and I'm very happy to see that the judges share my appreciation for O'Reilly's publication and it won the Interactive Design category!

Today's Observer is running a story about this new design trend of combining classic product design with technology to create innovative new designs with a twist. It's wonderful to see this concept finding some appreciation in the main stream media, it even made it to the cover of the Review section! If you can't get your own copy of the paper, just click here to read the article.

The London Design Museum is currently showing a retrospective of Hussein Chalayan's work. It includes one of the video dresses and the laser dresses that we helped Hussein create for his Paris shows. Don't miss this unique opportunity to see these dresses, the exhibition is still open until 17 May 2009.

United Visual Artists have created a new lighting installation at the Opera North in Leeds. We gave them a little helping hand, creating some custom LED lights for this new piece of work. Make sure you drop by if you are in Leeds, the installation is still open until March 1st.

In the beginning of February I took part in the FutureDesignDays event in Stockholm, a unique opportunity to share the stage with two of the world's best lighting designers: Paul Cocksedge and Ingo Maurer. Click here for some more information about this conference.

My beloved Polo is now for sale to make space for a new automotive project. To read more about the Polo click here and to buy it have a look at the ebay auction.

A new year and a new job: from now on I will be an official contributor to abitare and enrich it with a selection of links resulting from my chronic web surfing habit. Expect some strange and wonderful projects from the fringes of engineering and design. The first one went online today, have a look here.

We wish you a happy Christmas and all the best for the new year!