I could have written this like a proper studio. A neat paragraph about how much I care, a polite mention of strategy, a subtle flex of credentials. You’ve seen it all before. The issue is, those pages might look expensive, but they’re rarely memorable, and they tell you very little about the person you’d actually be working with. Which is quite a lot of pressure to put on one page. So let’s lower the stakes. The best studio pages don’t sound “professional”. They sound like someone real is in there. Because people don’t hire portfolios. They hire people. And people, inconveniently, like to know who they’re dealing with. So here’s the useful part…
Now that we’ve established I’m not a robot, you should probably know what I do and why people tend to come to me when their business stops feeling like a cute experiment. You have something good. Possibly very good. But I’m not the person you hire for decorative language. I’m the one you bring in to see the whole mess, figure out what matters, cut what doesn’t, and build something that actually helps you. Not because we share the same Pinterest board, but because I’ve seen this exact pattern before. The almost-there brand. The website that technically exists but makes you hesitate before sending it. The content that either looks good and says nothing or never quite makes it out. It’s a very specific kind of mess you get yourself into. And I have a bit of a thing for this kind of mess.
Hi there! My name is Stephanny, but you can call me Nina. Most of the time, this is an “I” situation. You’re talking to me, I’m doing the thinking, I’m shaping the work, and I’m the one alone in the office obsessing over it when you don’t hear from me between Tuesday and Thursday. But I’m not really alone in the sense that matters. I’m lucky enough to have met a developer and a copywriter I trust deeply, the kind of people who don’t make me lower the standard to make it work.
And then there’s the wider circle. The people I don’t work with every single time, but I’m very glad when I do. Photographers in different parts of the world, a product developer who can take an idea and turn it into something you can actually manufacture, motion designers, video editors, illustrators, type designers, all of it. It’s less of a fixed team and more of a pool of talented friends. You’re still hiring me, but I know exactly who to call when something needs to go further.
I think that balance matters. Because I never want this to feel like a mysterious “we” where you don’t know who’s doing what, but I also don’t want it to feel limited when it’s not. You’re getting one very involved, very opinionated person leading the work, with access to people who are just as good at their thing when the project asks for it. For me, it keeps things clear without making them small. And speaking of big things, something I’m quietly very proud of is how far the work has travelled. I was born in a really small town, and somehow the things I’ve made have ended up in places I haven’t even been to yet.
At some point, something I designed quite literally made it to Antarctica, which still feels slightly insane when I think about it. But honestly, it’s not about where it goes, it’s about what it becomes when it gets there. Brands people choose, websites people use, events people attend, campaigns that become movements. So the map at the end of this page is just a way of showing you that. Not in a “look how global this is” way, but in a “holy shit, this work moves” kind of way. I’ve travelled to a handful of countries myself, but the work has gone further than I have. And honestly, I think that says more than anything else I could try to convince you of here.