Jonas Samson: Light Emitting Wallpaper

We know you look back fondly on those high school days of zoning out to your trippy Pink Floyd black light poster in your bedroom, and while you may have outgrown that zoning out phase that doesn’t mean you’ve outgrown the need for having your wall illuminated with imagery. Jonas Samson has designed a high-tech, light-emitting wallpaper proving it “possible to use a two-dimensional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object.” So not only can you toss that black light, maybe you should say goodbye to your desk lamp that you’re always knocking over as well. There’s a new light fixture in town, and it’s on your wall.

However, if you should feel like giving your new light emitting wallpaper a rest from its illumination duties, it retains its effectiveness as plain ol’ wallpaper. If your other wallpaper starts to get jealous and begins to light up you may just have poltergeists in your home at which point we’d recommend relocation to somewhere not built on an Indian burial ground.