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Project: Barenaked Yogurt (Los Angeles) Creative Direction, Logo Design: Luciano Martinez, Nuria Romero

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Project: Illustrations for My Super Cool Friends (Lectura Books) Creative Director, Illustration: Luciano Martinez Website: www.lecturabooks.com

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Project: Airzone (Austin, Texas) Creative Direction, Logo Design: Luciano Martinez, Nuria Romero

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Project: Birthday Party Card for Paper Culture Creative Director, Illustration: Luciano Martinez Website: www.paperculture.com 

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Project: Alma Y Alma - Image Branding Photography/Creative Direction: Luciano Martinez Photographer: Lluvia Higuera

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Project: My Friends Love Me - ID System Creative Direction, Brand Designer: Luciano Martinez

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Project: Baby Shower Card for Paper Culture Creative Director, Illustration: Luciano Martinez Website: www.paperculture.com

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Project: Editorial - The Future “Computer Nerd” Photography/Creative Direction: Luciano Martinez Photography: Lluvia Higuera

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Project: The Mystical Yeti Healer (Installation Character Design: Luciano Martinez and Amy Van Gilder Photography: Lluvia Higuera

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Project: Holiday Card for Paper Culture Creative Director, Illustration: Luciano Martinez Website: www.paperculture.com

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Project: My Friends Love Me - “There Is Another World. A Better World.” Photography/Creative Direction, Brand Designer: Luciano Martinez Photography: Lluvia Higuera

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Project: White Party 2010, Booklet, VIP Cards, Wrist Bands Creative Direction, Brand Designer: Luciano Martinez

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Project: The Village Kitchen (Los Angeles) Creative Direction, Logo Design: Luciano Martinez

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BLOPOP MAGAZINE: VOLUME TWO (176 Pages, No Ads)

Brand Design, Graphic Designer, Curator, Writer, Editor: Luciano Martinez Assistant Editor: Eric Friedrichsen

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BLOPOP MAGAZINE: VOLUME ONE (176 Pages, No Ads)

+  View Sample for Volume One +  Purchase Print Magazine +  Subscribe To Digital Magazine

BloPop Magazine is an invitation only, boutique-style art publication beautifully designed and thoughtfully crafted for the savvy artist, art curator, gallery owner, art collector and art enthusiast. BloPop is written by a handful of wonderful writers spearheaded by visual artist and brand designer Luciano Martinez. BloPop’s goal is to further the pop surrealism and low brow contemporary art movement by featuring inspiring works by various progressive artists regardless of levels of commercial success within the art world.

BloPop will gift a free digital download of Volume One to curators, gallerist, and art collectors. You may request your free digital download by emailing us at [email protected].

BloPop Magazine’s Volume Two edition is set to be released on March 17, 2016 and BloPop’s mini “contemporary character art” digest is set to be released on June 1, 2016.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Contributors: Kathie Olivas (Stranger Factory), Nathan Cartwright (The Hive Gallery), Lluvia Higuera

Featured Artists Interviews: Edward Cao, Saddo, Chris Leib

Featured Artists: Fred Stonehouse, Claudio Romo Torres, El Gato Chimney, Jaclyn Alderete, Paul Neberra, Anthony Hurd

Introduction To An Artist: Emile Morel, Paul Barnes, Nick Sheehy, Valentina Brostean, Susanne Apgar, Kaspian Shore, Joseba Eskubi

Special Thanks: Marcos and Atticus Saldana, Cactus Gallery, and Eric J. Friedrichsen

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Full View: “Praise The Cloud Rider” by Luciano Martinez, Flower Pepper Gallery - Pasadena, California

Photography: Lluvia Higuera

“I have been wanting to create something whimsical for some time now. I felt that creating a new window art installation for Flower Pepper Gallery’s 4th Year Anniversary Show was the perfect place for the construction of the ‘Praise The Cloud Rider’ installation.

The idea for the installation came to me during one of my plane trips to Spain. I was looking out the window as my plane elevated and as it passed a bed of clouds, the scene suddenly transformed itself into a magical night sky. The event was during twilight hours and the light cast onto the clouds was beautiful and serene. The whole landscape just looked heavenly and out of this world. My thoughts wandered as the plane kept elevating. Up there, I felt humbled by the magnificence in my surroundings. I thought about how small we humans are in the spectrum of the universe and our need to feel important and significant. This idea of how humans look towards the sky for a savior to save us from our everyday existence kept coming up. I then dreamt up this scene in which a cloud-riding saint is summoned up by a group of spiritual ice mountains. I used Buddhism and Hinduism as my main sources of influence. In the end, I felt a great peace creating this art installation. In some ways, constructing this piece saved me from some of the things I was going through personally.”

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Project: My Friends Love Me -  Online Store Visual Brand Direction Photography/Creative Director, Tee Design: Luciano Martinez Photography: Lluvia Higuera