Havana, Cuba
Born in Havana Cuba, Magdiel Lopez spent his childhood years inspired by the colorful culture that surrounded him. Naturally, such upbringing played an integral part in forming Lopez’s keen sense of style, art and design, which can be realized in his works today.
Looking for freedom and a better life, Lopez moved to the United States at fifteen, where he continued working on his skill for the next 10 years privately.
Magdiel decided to reveal his work in a series called “A Poster A Day” — releasing one piece of artwork on his Instagram everyday for 365 days. Each day garnered more attention from a global audience, ultimately leading Magdiel to be featured by the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Entrepreneur, and Awwwards. To date, Magdiel has worked with several brands such as Apple, Nike, Absolute Vodka, MTV, Warner Brothers, etc., and currently has a partnership with Adobe as a design mentor and creative.
Magdiel lives in Dallas Texas where he runs his own creative agency, Belmont Creative. Belmont Creative.
Havana, Cuba
The Visual Artist classifies his style as surrealist, a mixture of design and ART focused on keeping it alive, using current media. He describes his design process in a few steps where he defines the concept or feelings into a visual image in his mind, collecting information and reviewing his previous work to develop the idea, using different software, which combined achieve the final design. Lastly he shares and gets feedback on his work, focusing primarily on emotional response and the process of creation. Everything works together to tell a story, not just to show an individual design. Lopez proceeds to do it all over again. Using programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator and in some occasions, Cinema 4D. It takes him a day to set in motion his idea and approximately one to two hours to craft what the public gets to see, a beautiful work of art.
As usual, artists always find inspiration and are influenced by other artists. For Lopez, legends like Salvador Dali, Henry Matisse and designers like Shane Griffin (@grif), @beeple_crap and Christian Orrillo have been big influences in both design and virtual reality. Plus, like us, he loves going through pinterest and designspiration.com to find interesting content.