Tina Liu graduated from Simon Fraser University in Canada. She returned to Hong Kong in 1978 and became part of a network of creatives whose cosmopolitan training was keen in cultural production. Liu’s career has stretched across the entertainment and image industries since the late 1970s. She was a singer, actress, and writer, and has worked extensively in film and for concerts. She joined City Magazine in 1981 as Executive Director. In the mid-1980s, she established Black and White Records, an independent record label with which she designed album covers You Left Me Here (1984), I Want (1985), and A Thousand Suns (1986) for Deanie Ip. Liu was also Image Director of Esprit de Corp (Asia), Image Director for TVB and Asia TV, and Channel Director of Metro Broadcast FM 104. In 1994, she founded Hong Kong’s first professional image consultancy firm.

Alan Chan is a graphic designer, art director, and brand consultant. He founded Alan Chan Design Company in 1980. His cross-media works, which stretch across advertising, branding, graphic, art, editorial and interior design, have shaped the graphic identity of important entities in Hong Kong, including the music and entertainment industry besides retail and F&B. Chan’s contributions have also reached international audiences. He was the first Chinese designer invited for a solo exhibition by Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo in 2002. He is known for his pioneering album cover designs such as for Leslie Cheung’s Stand Up (1985), Hot Summer (1988), and Final Encounter (1989), and Anita Mui’s Leap the Stage (1984) and Bad Girl (1985).