I’m sharing my photos not the location. A piece of heaven in the countryside. Wood burning stove, my lovely lady, uninterrupted views, dancing birds and chilled out baby cows. Keep it special – don’t go there.

The making of Telematics City by Hook. Is a data visualization trip through the creation of a 3d city, from app to wireframe, to render and fly-through – featuring 1200 buildings. It seems to be commissioned by Toyota and Lexus and I think is interactive from the console / kiosk featured on the Hook website.

Who ever was the creative team on this – I hope your livers are alright?

Find out anymore – let me know.

The screen consists of concrete with embedded optical fibres, arranged as pixels, capable of transmitting natural as well as artificial light. The light-admission points are on the back of the screen where the fibres are positioned. The light, or the picture, will then be displayed in pixels on the front. The light source can be a projector emitting either pictures or film footage. In principle, the screen is capable of acting as a window since – owing to the combination of the screen concept’s light-absorption and optical cables – it has a capacity for transmitting natural light.

Read more at the Innovation Lab

“I’ll throw the damned rearview mirror out the damned window because I don’t want to know where I’ve come from, but where I’m going.”

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Chris Rose, designer, has remixed a series of photos of London’s Brunel Universities Uxbridge Campus. See all the photos here.

Via Boing Boing