Northwave2025
An AI copilot for ocean logistics
AIProductRealtime
AI Engineering
WebGL
Brand Systems
Product Design
Realtime
Spatial Interfaces
Generative
Design Engineering
Motion
Immersive Web
Strategy
Prototyping
AI Engineering
WebGL
Brand Systems
Product Design
Realtime
Spatial Interfaces
Generative
Design Engineering
Motion
Immersive Web
Strategy
Prototyping
About
We are a small studio of designers, engineers, and instigators. We build products that feel inevitable — at the seam where craft meets code, and ambition meets the engineered detail.
From AI-native interfaces to category-defining brands, our work lives at the intersection of strategy, design and engineering. No silos, no hand-offs — one team, end to end, ahead of the curve.
120+
Products shipped
12
Awwwards & FWA
9
Years compounding
Studio
Stockholm · Remote
Manifesto
"Build the thing that didn't exist yesterday. Make it feel obvious today."
Unicorn Labs · 001
Services
What we build.
Six disciplines, one team. We don't hand off — strategy, design and engineering compound from day one.
01
Brand & Identity
Visual systems, voice and motion identities for ambitious companies.
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02
Product Design
End-to-end product design — from research to a shippable design system.
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03
AI Engineering
Native AI interfaces, agents, and multimodal experiences that feel inevitable.
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04
Immersive Web
WebGL, shader work, scroll cinema and 3D worlds that perform on every device.
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05
Realtime Systems
Multiplayer, collaboration, and event-driven architectures at scale.
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06
Launch & Growth
From zero to product-market fit — engineering, content, distribution.
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Selected work
Recent case studies.
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Halo Mobility2025
Rebrand for a category-defining EV startup
BrandIdentityWeb
Lumen.fm2024
Generative cover art for 12M tracks
GenerativeWebGLScale
Atlas Health2024
Patient platform redesign — 3.4× engagement
Design SystemProduct
Field Studio2024
Spatial portfolio in WebGL
WebGL3DMotion
Forma2023
Realtime collaborative whiteboard
RealtimeEngineering
Process
Four steps. No theater.
- 01
Discover
We embed with your team to map ambitions, constraints, audiences and the technical surface we'll build on.
- 02
Design
Brand, product and motion designed in lockstep. Prototypes are built in code, not slides.
- 03
Engineer
Production-grade architecture from day one — typed, tested, observable, fast on every device.
- 04
Launch
We ship, measure, iterate. Most engagements end with us handing over a team that can keep going.
What clients say
Built with teams that ship.
"
Unicorn Labs delivered a product that genuinely felt three years ahead of our category. We've never shipped this fast.
Mira Kovac
CEO
Northwave
"
They are the rare studio that can argue strategy, ship a design system, and write the WebGL shader in the same week.
Daniel Adeyemi
VP Product
Atlas Health
"
The brand felt inevitable the moment we saw it. Our investors closed the round on the deck alone.
Sofia Lindqvist
Founder
Halo Mobility
"
Engineering quality bordered on obsessive — in the best way. Zero post-launch firefighting.
Hiro Tanaka
CTO
Forma
"
Generative covers for 12 million tracks. They made it look easy. It was not easy.
Eli Brooks
Head of Design
Lumen.fm
"
We pitched ten studios. Unicorn Labs was the only one who already had a prototype running.
Anaïs Moreau
Director
Field Studio
"
Unicorn Labs delivered a product that genuinely felt three years ahead of our category. We've never shipped this fast.
Mira Kovac
CEO
Northwave
"
They are the rare studio that can argue strategy, ship a design system, and write the WebGL shader in the same week.
Daniel Adeyemi
VP Product
Atlas Health
"
The brand felt inevitable the moment we saw it. Our investors closed the round on the deck alone.
Sofia Lindqvist
Founder
Halo Mobility
"
Engineering quality bordered on obsessive — in the best way. Zero post-launch firefighting.
Hiro Tanaka
CTO
Forma
"
Generative covers for 12 million tracks. They made it look easy. It was not easy.
Eli Brooks
Head of Design
Lumen.fm
"
We pitched ten studios. Unicorn Labs was the only one who already had a prototype running.
Anaïs Moreau
Director
Field Studio
"
We pitched ten studios. Unicorn Labs was the only one who already had a prototype running.
Anaïs Moreau
Director
Field Studio
"
Generative covers for 12 million tracks. They made it look easy. It was not easy.
Eli Brooks
Head of Design
Lumen.fm
"
Engineering quality bordered on obsessive — in the best way. Zero post-launch firefighting.
Hiro Tanaka
CTO
Forma
"
The brand felt inevitable the moment we saw it. Our investors closed the round on the deck alone.
Sofia Lindqvist
Founder
Halo Mobility
"
They are the rare studio that can argue strategy, ship a design system, and write the WebGL shader in the same week.
Daniel Adeyemi
VP Product
Atlas Health
"
Unicorn Labs delivered a product that genuinely felt three years ahead of our category. We've never shipped this fast.
Mira Kovac
CEO
Northwave
"
We pitched ten studios. Unicorn Labs was the only one who already had a prototype running.
Anaïs Moreau
Director
Field Studio
"
Generative covers for 12 million tracks. They made it look easy. It was not easy.
Eli Brooks
Head of Design
Lumen.fm
"
Engineering quality bordered on obsessive — in the best way. Zero post-launch firefighting.
Hiro Tanaka
CTO
Forma
"
The brand felt inevitable the moment we saw it. Our investors closed the round on the deck alone.
Sofia Lindqvist
Founder
Halo Mobility
"
They are the rare studio that can argue strategy, ship a design system, and write the WebGL shader in the same week.
Daniel Adeyemi
VP Product
Atlas Health
"
Unicorn Labs delivered a product that genuinely felt three years ahead of our category. We've never shipped this fast.
Mira Kovac
CEO
Northwave
Let's build
Let's build something inevitable.
Tell us about the thing you're trying to build. We read every brief.