Hiiibrand Awards 2019 — Call fo Entry — Nanjing, China

Hiiibrand is a creative professional platform for a wide range of artistic and design talents. Since 2010, Hiiibrand has successfully held more than 30 international and professional competitions including brand, illustration, typography, product design and so on. More than 30,000 people from more than 100 countries and regions participated in the competitions. Hiiibrand received support and recognition from more than...

Andrea Bianchi — Milan, Italy

What is your favourite album cover? “The easy answer for me, being a jazz fan, would be to choose a random Blue Note cover. Those artworks feature an extraordinary use of typography, layout and colour, especially considering the simple tools they had. Stepping away from clichés, I would say my favourite album cover is Skin by Flume. Featuring an amazing...

Max Lippolis — Salerno, Italy

How do music and design come together during your creative process? “Always! I live for music every day, it helps me concentrate. It’s essential to my creative process. In the design studio, where you are trapped for 12+ hours a day, I was the one who played my playlist for the room. Since I didn’t listen to just one type...

bend — Athens, Greece

What is your favourite album cover? “You cannot separate a cover from its content, especially when it comes to music. A favourite album is usually a combination of many things. Design is one step in a bigger experiential sequence of many things such as the age, the moment, the company, the sentimental state you are in, etc. If we had...