MACKI*

2 blondies that create quirky colourful creations from handmade bits n bobs. Collaborating with like minded wackos (I mean that in a nice wacko sense!) wearing all sorts of wacky bits n bobs….

Specialising in: Art Direction, Set Design and Photography…

The Magic Machine.

Winner of a poster competition by ‘Don’t Panic’. 80,000 printed and distributed in the UK, Australia and certain parts of Europe. A collaboration with Alex Bec, Jamie Jongo and Leah Stewart

This IS an Art Attack!…

YCN Commission Alphabet letter. The girls were commisioned to make the letter J for a bespoke alphabet for the new YCN book 07/08. They decided to make the J into a piñata after thinking about words like jackpot and jokes. They filled it with lots of things they love and whacked the life out of it in Shadwell Gardens.

YCN Call of entries promotion
They were commisoned to design, fill and make 250 piñatas to promote the call for entries for the 2007/08 YCN book.
They were sent to all the Graphics and Illustration courses in the country and 50 were sent to creative people and design studios for them to come up with a fun way of getting into them.

Moritz Waldemeyer has designed costumes for rock band OK Go, featuring LEDs that spell the band’s name.

I want the guy on the far right’s specs!!! If anone knows where I can getthem lemmie know!

OK Go are best known for their Here it Goes Again video, featuring the band on exercise treadmills.

Above and below: Waldemeyer (on right) modelling the outfits

Rising star of modern design, Moritz Waldemeyer, is collaborating with the quirky kings of Geek Rock, OK Go, to fashion a new kind of stage performance. The band recently approached Waldemeyer to design the costumes for their latest performance, and his solution quite literally lights up the stage – thousands of LED lights, stitched into the jackets of the four performers, will turn each of them into a moving light show. Waldemeyer’s inspiration was the flickering lights of the slot machines in the casinos of Las Vegas.

The result is a dazzling innovation in stage costume design, a knowing fusion of glitz and capitalist kitsch that perfectly reflects OK Go’s own synthesis of Power Pop and tongue-in-cheek wit.

When the band appears on stage, LED lights embedded in their jackets run through a sequence that makes up the letters O,K,G,O – like a Vegas slot-machine scrolling through its symbols to spell the band’s name.

OK Go are one of the world’s most dynamic alternative rock bands, known for their infectiously offbeat music and radically innovative low-budget videos. The video for “Here It Goes Again” – known globally as “The tread-mill video” – has become one of the most watched music videos of all time. Now they want to take their stage performances to the same level. Their collaboration with Waldemeyer is the first exciting step on that journey.

Recognised as one of the most innovative and exciting designers of his generation, Waldemeyer, aged 33, was born in East Germany. He moved to London twelve years ago where he trained as an engineer at Kings College and completed his Masters degree in 2001. Since then, he has collaborated with many of the world’s top architects and fashion designers including Phillippe Starck, Zaha Hadid, Thomas Heatherwick and Hussein Chalayan. His work is a fusion of technology, art, fashion and design.

The costumes were first shown on 22 November at KOKO night club, as part of the Smirnoff Electric Cabaret. A new era of rock flamboyance has begun.