<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[shape+colour]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/author/shapeandcolour/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[universal everything: forever.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Matt Pyke and the folks at <a href="http://www.universaleverything.com"><span style="color:#ff6600;">Universal Everything</span></a> are running one of the best design shops in the entire world. In case you missed it, the mind-blowing <a href="https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/advanced-beauty-is-finally-released/"><span style="color:#00ffff;">Advanced Beauty</span></a> was my favourite thing in 2008. Now they&#8217;re kicking off 2009 with equal awesomeness.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.universaleverything.com/276"><span style="color:#00ff00;">&#8220;Forever&#8221;</span></a> is a large videowall floating above the pond in the John Madegaki Garden at London&#8217;s Victoria &amp; Albert Museum. It plays an endless number of unique, morphing images that constantly &#8220;rise&#8221; from the surface of the water. The result is classic Universal Everything: a heightened commingling of organic and digital as they continue to explore the ways that technology can reinterpret natural forms into stunning new visuals. With the animation designed around a central &#8220;spine&#8221;, the forms, though abstract, to me seemed beautifully reminiscent of everything from  a swirl of smoke, to a budding branch, to a genetic double helix, to a flash of lighting, to an incandescent wind-blown feather, and more.</p>
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<p>If you&#8217;re not able to make it in person to see the installation in London, then there&#8217;s also an online installation creating an equally-endless series of <a href="vodpod%20id=Groupvideo.1949137&amp;w=425&amp;h=350&amp;fv=clip_id%3D2705718%26server%3Dvimeo.com%26autoplay%3D0%26fullscreen%3D1%26md5%3D0%26show_portrait%3D0%26show_title%3D0%26show_byline%3D0%26context%3Duser%3A92422%26context_id%3D%26force_embed%3D0%26multimoog%3D%26color%3D00ADEF%5D"><span style="color:#ff00ff;">podcasts</span></a>, making the experience available to anyone with a computer. It&#8217;s pretty much brilliant. &#8220;Forever&#8221; is also being used to create 20,000 completely unique postcards, which (hopefully) we can get our hands on somehow. Maybe not all 20,000&#8230; but one or five would be cool.</p>
<p>Check out the making of:</p>
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