HIVAL

HIVAL

Careful design for brands worth remembering.

Based in Sofia

About

Val is a visual identity designer based in Sofia. He started Hival because he believes the brands people build deserve to look like they mean it.


It started with scribbles in the margins of geography

notebooks — an obsession with making things look right that never really went away. That led to design school, an RSA Moving Pictures Award, and eventually a practice built around one idea: that a brand's visual language should do the talking for the people behind it.


The work is careful. The process is collaborative. And when the job calls for it, the right people get brought in.

Designer Val reading a brand identity book, founder of Hival Design studio in Sofia
Designer reviewing a collection of logo marks on screen at Hival Design studio

Experience

Company

role

Year

Orreco

Graphic Designer

2025-present

Orreco

Graphic Designer

2025-present

Freelance

Graphic Designer

2021-Present

Freelance

Graphic Designer

2021-Present

Brand identity and window signage design for a focaccia and brunch café, Hival Design project

Capabilities

Complete digital services delivering design, branding, and high-performance web solutions.

Akt17 brand identity logo displayed on a MacBook screen, Hival Design project

Branding

Visual identity built from the ground up — or refined until it's right. Strategy, naming, brand systems, and everything that makes a brand recognisable before anyone reads a word.

Brand identity

Strategy

Competitive Analysis

Strategy

Naming

Asset production

Branding

Visual identity built from the ground up — or refined until it's right. Strategy, naming, brand systems, and everything that makes a brand recognisable before anyone reads a word.

Brand identity

Strategy

Competitive Analysis

Strategy

Naming

Asset production

Motion

Logo animations and motion work that brings the work out of the static realm.

Logo Animation

Intro / outro stingers

Animated brand assets

Social motion

Motion

Logo animations and motion work that brings the work out of the static realm.

Logo Animation

Intro / outro stingers

Animated brand assets

Social motion

Web design

Websites that extend the brand rather than contradict it. Designed to be clear, considered, and easy to build on.

UX / UI DESIGN

Accessibility

Landing Pages

Typography

Responsive layout

Motion Design

Web design

Websites that extend the brand rather than contradict it. Designed to be clear, considered, and easy to build on.

UX / UI DESIGN

Accessibility

Landing Pages

Typography

Responsive layout

Motion Design

Development

Professional website development focused on performance, scalability, and seamless functionality.

Front-end / Back -End

Cms integration

E-commerce

Framer / Webflow

Payments

Seo setup

Development

Professional website development focused on performance, scalability, and seamless functionality.

Front-end / Back -End

Cms integration

E-commerce

Framer / Webflow

Payments

Seo setup

Rezolve supplement brand identity billboard mockup showing Corti-Sol product, Hival Design project

What Clients say

Real feedback from clients who trusted the process and experienced meaningful results.

Morgan Michelle

Morgan Michelle

Educational Consultant

Most designers start with their style. Val starts with your brand. He's a listener first — someone who takes a jagged mosaic of ideas and turns them into exactly what you wanted but couldn't articulate. There's no such thing as a minor detail with him. Every decision has a reason, and all of them are infused with your brand. I still can't believe this is mine.

Morgan Michelle

Morgan Michelle

Educational Consultant

Most designers start with their style. Val starts with your brand. He's a listener first — someone who takes a jagged mosaic of ideas and turns them into exactly what you wanted but couldn't articulate. There's no such thing as a minor detail with him. Every decision has a reason, and all of them are infused with your brand. I still can't believe this is mine.

Whitney Wolfe

Nik Gospodinov

CEO & co-founder Mandel AI

Val pushed us to think harder about who we are before touching a single logo. That process made all the difference. By the time he walked us through the Mandelbrot set, the Golden Ratio, the reasoning behind every decision, we already understood what we were looking at. The M was right there in the geometry. It felt inevitable. The result is a brand that actually reflects the seriousness of what we’re doing and one that holds up everywhere we need it.

Nick Gospodinov - CEO & co-founder  Mandel AI

Nik Gospodinov

CEO & co-founder Mandel AI

Val pushed us to think harder about who we are before touching a single logo. That process made all the difference. By the time he walked us through the Mandelbrot set, the Golden Ratio, the reasoning behind every decision, we already understood what we were looking at. The M was right there in the geometry. It felt inevitable. The result is a brand that actually reflects the seriousness of what we’re doing and one that holds up everywhere we need it.

Whitney Wolfe

Nik Gospodinov

CEO & co-founder Mandel AI

Val pushed us to think harder about who we are before touching a single logo. That process made all the difference. By the time he walked us through the Mandelbrot set, the Golden Ratio, the reasoning behind every decision, we already understood what we were looking at. The M was right there in the geometry. It felt inevitable. The result is a brand that actually reflects the seriousness of what we’re doing and one that holds up everywhere we need it.

Clients

  • Mandel AI Logo
  • REZOLVe Logo Icon
  • SHUPLA - Logo Icon
  • REZOLVE - Wordmark
  • Minimal Dragonfly - Icon design
  • Morgan Michelle - Logo
  • Mandel AI Logo
  • REZOLVe Logo Icon
  • SHUPLA - Logo Icon
  • REZOLVE - Wordmark
  • Minimal Dragonfly - Icon design
  • Morgan Michelle - Logo
  • Mandel AI Logo
  • REZOLVe Logo Icon
  • SHUPLA - Logo Icon
  • REZOLVE - Wordmark
  • Minimal Dragonfly - Icon design
  • Morgan Michelle - Logo
Akt17 brand identity displayed on iPhone mockup showing logo and brand messaging, Hival Design project

Awards &
Recognitions

RSA

Moving Pictures Award

Rebooting The System

2023

DesignRush

Best Packaging Design

The Coffee Brew House

2024

Brandbrief

Instagram Competition Winner

Fire Pizza

2024

Designer reading a brand strategy document, studying reference material for a client project at Hival Design
Shupla - Packaging Design Mockup
Morgan Michelle - Billboard Design Mockup
AKT17 - Offer & Other Stationary Design Mockup
AKT 17 - Magazine Design Mockup
REZOLVE - Billboard Design
Mandel AI - Business card design mockup
Shupla - Sticker Design on Custom Paper Design mockup
AKT17 - Business cards design mockup on concrete hexagonal concrete blocks
Shupla - Window Vinly design mockup
AKT 17 - Logo on macbook screen mockup
Shupla - Sign Mockup
REZOLVE - Instagram profile page mockup

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Stand for the craft.

Help people find their voice.

Craft marks worth remembering.