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10+ years of experience in multidisciplinary design and copywriting. With a background in music and events, and shaped by his studies in linguistics and history, Alejandro Arilla creates artwork, cover design and event visuals for electronic music, from chrome and glass for Nicolas Julian to the full HIVE Society Records catalogue. Beyond music, he has worked for the University of Mannheim, for clubs, radio stations and other clients in mobility, hospitality and wellness. Based in Mannheim.

Nicolas Julian

Concept shows, free rave, cover artwork and label artworks. One chrome and black language across print, feed and story.

Diamond and chain I
Animation

Hit The Floor cover artwork, chrome music player — Hit The Floor
Cover artwork

Nicolas Julian Concept Show, chrome snake around a black apple, DNA Munich — All Night Long
Concept show, Munich, 16/05/25

Nicolas Julian All Night Long concept show poster, Hamburg — All Night Long
Concept show, Hamburg, 07/02/26

Diamond and chain II
Animation

Don't Stop The Party
Mile High Club, animation

Nicolas Julian Free Rave Berlin poster — Free Rave
Berlin, 25/04/26

Nicolas Julian Concept Show, chrome thorns on black, Annomalie Berlin — All Night Long
Concept show, Berlin, 14/12/24

Chrome rave shades product render — Chrome Smiley Shades
Merch render

Nicolas Julian at VEX poster draft — VEX Collective presents
Poster draft

TERZA Don't Stop The Party cover, chrome speaker with cyan light — Terza, Don't Stop The Party
Mile High Club, cover

Tour dates graphic, March to May, red set with two portraits — Tour dates
Spring tour graphic

[selected] Berlin

Label covers, podcast artwork and event visuals for the Berlin label.

Strauss Hammer of Dawn EP cover — Strauss
Hammer of Dawn EP, S032

Royboy Red Lights cover — Royboy
Red Lights, S033

[selected] x Fluid RSO Berlin story — [selected] × Fluid
RSO Berlin, 27/11/26

Frederic. Rather Be With You album cover, final version — Frederic.
Rather Be With You, album cover

Frederic. TD2 cover — Frederic.
TD2 (feat. MCR-T)

Frederic. Bad Kingdom vinyl cover — Frederic.
Bad Kingdom, 2025 New Era Mix

Strauss podcast 064 cover — Podcast 064
Strauss.

[selected] Day and Night Showcase Hamburg story — Day and Night Showcase
Hamburg, 24/05/25

SESH

For Clara Cuvé and MCR-T, as well as SESH, a.k.a. SESHDAWGS UNITED

SESH
Tablet animation

SESH Dawgs United marshmallow badge — SESH Dawgs United
Marshmallow variant

SESHMAS VA
Instagram story, 9:16

SESHMAS VA
Spotify canvas, reversed

SESHMAS VA cover, red candy badge — SESHMAS VA
Cover

HIVE Society Records

Single covers HVS017 to HVS022. A fixed metal emblem, a new world per release.

HVS022 alejandrø Let Me Show You cover — HVS022 alejandrø
Let Me Show You

HVS018 NOTMYTYPE I Can Feel You cover — HVS018 NOTMYTYPE
I Can Feel You

HVS021 Dominik Saltevski New Era cover — HVS021 Dominik Saltevski
New Era

HVS020 NOTMYTYPE Empty Promises cover — HVS020 NOTMYTYPE
Empty Promises

HVS019 KAMÄLEON Running cover — HVS019 KAMÄLEON
Running

HVS017 IGDA Still Alive cover — HVS017 IGDA
Still Alive

fifty__two

Identity and club night posters for fifty__two at RSO.Berlin: wordmark, logo, posters and the type-free visuals behind them.

fifty__two.
Wordmark

Pink and grey cream twisted with chains, no type — Chain and cream, pink

fifty__two.
RSO.Berlin, 23/01/26, animation

Red fabric knotted around a chain on green — Knot, green

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Logo

Orange and pink cords crossing on violet — Cross, violet I

fifty__two poster May 2026 — fifty__two.
RSO.Berlin, 22/05/26

Red and cream twisted with chains, no type — Chain and cream, red

Orange and olive twisted ribbon on mauve — Twist, orange

Orange and pink cords knotted on violet — Cross, violet II

Creative direction & visuals

Art direction for various photo shootings and other key visuals.

Back to back with pistols between two light panels — Back to back
fjusha × aø

Chrome ribbon on deep red — Chrome, crimson

Fisheye portrait with a static CRT monitor — Static
alejandrø × tvs

Backlit portrait of two people in a parking deck — Daylight
fjusha × aø

Esperate (alejandrø Remix)
Animation for David Löhlein

Motion

Two figures in a dark caged garage corridor — Garage
fjusha × aø

Final notice in black and white with a Matrix reference — Final notice
Matrix terminal, dodge this

Chrome ribbon on white — Chrome, white

Seated on a cube against red — Red set
Press shoot

Brutalist building in black and white — Hamburg

Liquid chrome on red — Chrome, red

Leaning in a steel elevator, sunglasses and chain — Elevator

Red lit tunnel — Tunnel

release²

Monthly poster series for the Mannheim party at Disco Zwei. Every month gets its own object and light.

release² January 2025 poster — Januar 2025

release² June 2025 poster with chrome and chains — Juni 2025

release² September 2025 poster with red ribbon and chain — September 2025

release² November 2025 poster with chain on orange — November 2025

release² December 2025 poster with chained candy cane — Dezember 2025

release² April 2026 poster with barbed wire — April 2026