Philip Giordano was born in 1980 close to Savona in Italy, the son of a Swiss-Italian father and a Philippine mother. He studied illustration at the Istituto Europeo di Disegno in Turín, where he later took a Masters in Animation Technique. In 2004 his illustrations were selected for the Mostra degli Illustratori at the Children's Book Fair in Bologna. In 2006 he participated in the Salon du Livre, Montreuil, Paris, where he received the 'Prix des Adultes' and the 'Prix des Médiateurs' in 2009. In the same year, his work was selected for the Bienal de Ilustración de Ilustrarte, in Portugal. In 2010, he was once again selected for the Mostra degli Ilustratori at the Bologna Book Fair.