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The struggles of saying "I love you" inspired the founder to create her own personalised love books.
Story No. 9 is a Danish online gift shop founded by Nhi Do in November 2017. But its story goes way back. Growing up, she has never felt comfortable saying these three words: "I love you". Her first heartbreak made her found comfort in art and contributed to the creation of the matchbox characters.
In 2014, she was determined to express her feelings. Although expressing herself verbally was difficult, she would find a way to say it through a unique gift that emphasizes the meaning of love. She got the idea of creating her own handmade love book - a personalised book that illustrated 9 caring actions instead of saying "I love you".
With Nhi's vision, she wanted to transform art, personalisation, and actions into love books. Love books that would help others who are looking for a meaningful, easy, affordable, personalised way of gift-giving.
Others who loved this idea of gifting someone you love, are Nataly Tsiapalo, Ming Luke, and Hamza Aytac Dalgalidere. For years they were working together across the world to create love tickets. They had one common mission: to spread love and celebrate the little things.
In the end, the struggles of saying "I love you" got Story No. 9 here. Somewhere in between, it helped the founder to realize that "I love you's" should flow naturally without holding back. True love is worth the wait and everyone deserves to be happy!
The rest is ... Story No. 9. Watch Love Story
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Story Team
Story No. 9 was founded by Nhi Do from the scratch - literally. After 3 years, she managed to find a passionate team of talented artists. Together, they have a dream of creating something extraordinary. With help from the rest of the Story Team – Story No. 9 consists of quality books for a fair price, because we want happiness to be affordable for everyone – again and again! Imagination has no limits for the upcoming gift books
Nhi Do
After 13 years of making customers happy within a broad service field, it was time to become a visionary entrepreneur with eyes on the stars and feet on the ground
Nataly Tsiapalo
2D digital artist that is constantly finding new ideas for self-improvement. The most challenging part while working with Story No. 9 is to bring characters to life though simple emotions
Aytac Dalgalidere
Award winning designer, writer and bitter chocolate-lover. Life is meaningful when writing novels and creating colorful art – such as drawings and illustrations
The fearless web designers
When we first reached out for the UIG team, asking for an artistic universe, they were crazy enough to take this task. Let’s put it this way, the creation of Story No. 9’s website has not been an easy task. It’s actually been a rollercoaster of joy and challenges – and therefore not a task for any web designers… only the fearless ones.
UIG DESIGN AND WEB DEVELOPMENT STUDIO.
Pawel Hersztowski
Head of Studio, UIG
Pawel Barket
Project Leader | UX Designer, UIG
Anzhelika Lubas
UX/UI Designer, UIG
Agnieszka Tomkowicz
Front-end developer, UIG
Grzegorz Blachut
Full Stack Developer, UIG
Kacper Kurek
Full Stack Developer, UIG
Honourable mention
All these people make it possible!
Sofia Nguyen
The Advisor
Katrine Pettersson
The Content Admin
Mia Andersen
The Contenter Guru
Ryan Beck
The Magic Book Creator
Thao Pham
The Backend Guru
Ahmad Hahmoud
The Frontend Specialist
Johan Steiner Roug
The Frontend Expert
Khai Le
The Software Master
Pierre Tanderup
The Marketing Guy
Jens Christensen
The Google Guy
Marie-Louise Overgård
The Ultimate Blogger & SEO Guru
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The Creative Process
Nhi gets ideas and inspirations
She makes tons of sketches
Only the best drawings are selected
Ming, Nataly and Aytac re-illustrate the sketches using advanced drawing tools
The Story Team
interprets their artwork in 3 different styles
The Story Team
puts LOVE and EFFORT into each illustration
But they're facing many challenges and corrections!
And more challenges
Until we finally reach
"Happy Artwork"
