Universal Everything is a digital art practice and design studio based in
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...
, England. The studio was founded in 2004 by Matt Pyke, who is the creative director. Pyke studied botanical and technical illustration and then graphic design, before spending eight years at the
Designers Republic
The Designers Republic (also tDR, and styled as The Designers Republic™) is a British graphic design studio based in Sheffield, England, founded in 1986 by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips (graphic designer), Nick Phillips. They are best kno ...
(1996–2004).
Universal Everything have worked with several well known brands and corporations including Chanel, AOL Intel, Nike Inc., Hyundai, Samsung and Zaha Hadid, Apple, and Deutsche Bank and created the moving image identity for the London Olympic Games 2012
In April 2011, the studio created Super-Computer-Romantics, their first major solo exhibition, for the launch of the new digital art museum
La Gaîté Lyrique
La Gaîté Lyrique () is a digital arts and modern music centre opened by the City of Paris in December 2010, located at 3-5 rue Papin in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, 3rd arrondissement.Radiohead and the artist Stanley Donwood.
A monograph about the studio's work will be published in 2019 b Unit Editions
Style
The studio utilises modern technologies such as 3D printing, touch screens, motion capture, large format video displays and complex sound design to create large scale experiential works. Its work often incorporates and references architecture,
modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...
* Presence, an innovative motion capture work, in collaboration with
Benjamin Millepied
Benjamin Millepied (; born 10 June 1977) is a French dancer and choreographer, who has lived and worked in the United States since joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002. He has also ...
and The LA Dance Project
* Mobius Loop, a series of 18 large scale video artworks commissioned by
Hyundai Hyundai is a South Korean industrial conglomerate ("chaebol"), which was restructured into the following groups:
* Hyundai Group, parts of the former conglomerate which have not been divested
** Hyundai Mobis, Korean car parts company
** Hyundai ...
for their Vision Hall in Mabuk, South Korea, which received a Red Dot Communication Design award
* Evolving Environments, commissioned by
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG (), sometimes referred to simply as Deutsche, is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Sto ...
for their headquarters in Hong Kong
* Walking City, awarded the 2014
PRIX Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) ...
Golden Nica for Computer Animation/VFX
* Communion, a 360 audio-visual installation
*MTV Worldwide, global brand identity for relaunch of 62 channels
* Transfiguration, an evolving animation
*Screens of the Future, a video series that imagines prototypes for future display technology
*Unconfined, an immersive installation to launch the Samsung Galaxy S8 at Milan Design Week
*Hype Cycle, a series of futurist films exploring human-machine collaboration
*Inside the Sound, a series of 360° audiovisual environments
*Tribes, a study of human behaviour on a mass scale
*Emergence, a VR experience
*The Vehicle of Nature, an installation inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's studies of flowing water
Artworks
Universal Everything's artworks have been shown globally as part of group shows and solo exhibitions, including at
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
(New York),
V&A Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...
(London), Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture (Moscow),
La Gaîté Lyrique
La Gaîté Lyrique () is a digital arts and modern music centre opened by the City of Paris in December 2010, located at 3-5 rue Papin in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, 3rd arrondissement.Vitra Design Museum
The Vitra Design Museum is a privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
Former Vitra CEO, and son of Vitra founders Willi and Erika Fehlbaum, Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989 as an independent private foundation. The ...
(Germany), MAAT (Lisbon), Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul), and as part of Digital Revolution the internationally touring exhibition curated by the Barbican.
Artworks by Universal Everything have been held in the collections a Borusan Contemporary since 2014.
Universal Everything regularly publishes exclusive artworks on the digital platform Sedition.
In June 2014, Universal Everything's work, Walking City, was awarded the
PRIX Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) ...
"Golden Nica for Computer Animation/VFX".
In 2019, the studio's VR artwork Emergence premiered at Sundance Film Festival.