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"View Slideshow\n\nAn LED lamp that mimics a flickering candle; a jacket that changes color as patterns sweep across it; an illuminated wand that paints graphic images in the darkness. These are some of the concoctions with which Moritz Waldemeyer is reinventing the language of light. \"My projects use electrical engineering to create intelligent behavior,\" he says. \"But what I do is hard to define, because it goes across so many disciplines.\"\n\nBorn in East Germany and now based in London, Waldemeyer is an expert in mechatronics\u2014a combination of, among other things, mechanical and electrical ingenuity. His move into the product world came in 2004, when he and Ron Arad collaborated on a chandelier for Swarovski that could display text messages. Since then the young designer has worked with Philippe Starck and Jenny Holzer on lamps that are encoded with looping phrases; with Zaha Hadid on a touch-sensitive kitchen island; and with Hussein Chalayan on a laser-emitting dress. (The garment led to commissions for stage outfits from a number of A-list performers, including Bono, Rihanna, and Will.i.am.)\n\n\"New things become possible almost every year, because LEDs become cheaper or their output becomes brighter,\" Waldemeyer explains. \"You really can be the first person to do something.\"\n\nUnveiled in Milan this past spring, his Candles in the Wind fixture for Ingo Maurer\u2014resembling a group of long, slim circuit boards until its LEDs activate, conjuring dancing flames\u2014epitomizes his blend of pure engineering and radiant aesthetics. No less amazing was a 2011 installation for a Seoul shopping center. At first glance just an abstract sculpture, the piece revealed itself as a giant snowflake when viewed from a key vantage point. Projected video footage, modeled after an ice crystal's hexagonal symmetry, produced a kaleidoscopic ebb and flow of images.\n\n\"I try to keep a quality in my design that makes the ideas timeless,\" Waldemeyer says. \"And I like them to have a little bit of humor. Because for me it's not just about technology\u2014it's about striking a human chord.\"\n\nClick here for an extended slide show of Waldemeyer's pieces for Rihanna, Bono, and more."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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