jiva is ji from Jimmy and va from Val.

We've done some simple artwork for friends and local organisations (CD labels and inserts, flyers, websites etc) and when someone asked for an invoice, Val came up with the name jiva design... and it stuck.

We write and play acoustic music together, and it seemed as good a name as any - short and to the point... and, importantly, the domain name jiva.co.uk became available at just the right time.

There are some places where the name jiva has already been registered (eg eBay and some other forums) - in those circumstances we use jivauk as we live in the UK.