For the past three months we’ve had the pleasure of having Lisa Wallin as our intern here at Unsworn HQ.

After miraculously managing to combine the everyday Unsworn chores with studies in Physical Computing, Virtual Reality, and Cognitive Science it is now time for Lisa to focus on her studies full time. We warmly thank Lisa for diligently assisting us with everything from Parascope prototyping to designing the web interface for the Telemegaphone backend.

We had Unsworn muckrakers brush off their Sawatsky-skills to get the intern emeritus to reveal the dirty details of everyday industry life:

UI: How come you chose Unsworn? Is it becuse of the great camraderie, international flair and amazing leadership? The exquisite lunch catering? The clean, well-organised and healthy office environment?

Lisa: Besides all those great things I like the way you explore public space, both in cities and in nature, through communication, curiosity, and playfulness.

What’s a typical day like at UI HQ?

Oh, there is no typical day. As an intern I have been to meetings at the bank, doing cable-sloyd in Kivik and looking for prototype material in the streets. One thing that’s typical though are the morning meetings and the lunches with all kinds of people interested in Unsworn’s work.

On your first day you mentioned that Unsworn personnel are not as hip as the website suggest. Could you take a couple of minutes not to elaborate on that?

Of course it depends of how you define hip. My definition in this situation hip was cool and tough. So I got a little surprised at my first meeting when I meet these nice and caring persons that was Unsworn. Their generosity and kindness is something that has been present throughout the whole internship.

Do you have any advice for future Unsworn interns?

Yes, to do a full time internship for a short I think is ultimate because you then can focus all your energy on the intern work. But also I think it depends on which level you are at and what your goal with the internship is. Think about that first.

Any advice for future Unsworn endeavours?

Keep on going!

You’re doing your second year of the Interaction Design bachelor program at K3, Malmö University and you said you wanted to get a better understanding for what an interaction design practice could be like. So, after three months here, do you still want to do this? Where do you want to go from this?

It has been great doing the internship at Unsworn. I learned a lot about how you can work as an interaction designer and yes, this is really something I want to do in the future. My next goal from here is to find out more about what my role is going to be and what other ways of working there are in this area. And to have fun while I’m doing this.

How much taller than Erik is Magnus?

Hmmm, that’s a tricky one. If I would estimate roughly I would guess about 2 or 3 metres depending on which shoes Magnus has.

Unsworn Industries celebrated 55 weeks at their Norra Grängesbergsgatan HQ with pomp and pastries.

We promised mammalian dolphin drumming but delivered ophoniste battlegrounds, sourdough megafood, locally produced beer, foamy farm animals, and the occasional jumpstylee beat.

Thanks to all friends and colleagues for the assistance in turning NGBG4 into a smattering epicentre of excellence!

(Red eyes are purely due to a fire in a Malmö recycling-plant earlier in the day.)

To the rest of you who could’t make it: You should have been there. It was great. See you at the next numerological feast…

Unsworn becomes Unsworn Industries and moves to a new studio.

Some of you have known Unsworn long enough to have seen our first staggering steps as a heavy metal band in the late nineties and have patiently watched our transformation into an experimental interaction design duo. Today we move into our new studio, put on the top hats, light expensive cigars and call ourselves Unsworn Industries.

Unsworn Industries is an interaction design and innovation studio specialising in the careful crafting of personal technologies, social action spaces, interactive sound, and online experiences.

New feline employee

We would also like to welcome our newest co-worker, Rolf the Cat. Rolf (or Roffe as his friends call him) specialises in database design and nocturnal hair-licking; has a dedicated box in the new Unsworn Industries HQ closet; but will probably work from home most of the time as his crisp auditory senses don’t fare well with our black-metal neighbours.