Julio Granados – Retablo to Miss Saint Rosa de Lima

The first time I met Peruvian graphic artist, Julio Granados, was when he walked in the door of my house clutching a package wrapped in a brown plaid flannel cloth.  My friend Norberto Bogard of the very informative www.piederecho.com, had told him about our retablo contest/auction to raise money for the Food is Arte program that I created and run with  my daughter, Marissa for the Mexican Cultural Institute  and he enthusiastically set out to work.

Hardly able to restrain his excitement, he  carefully unwrapped the package and I burst out crying.  It is a  beautifully crafted wooden box that he illustrated with a stylized  portrait of Saint Rose of Lima. He  carefully opened it and on the left is a crown of roses that she always wore and inside the box is a letter whose message thanking her for allowing him to be born gay touched me deeply.  What courage.

Julio is a a freelance conceptual graphic designer & Illustrator specialising in producing print, logos
and illustration for design agencies  and businesses world-wide.

Julio Granados has 18 years industry experience working for editorials, print production, design agencies and companies which include McGrawHill, Santillana, Alfaguara Infantil, NYU, Sprint, El Museo del Barrio and Bigcitygraph-X in New York.  look at his website ww.juliogranados.com and you will recognize many of his logos and other works.

He also sings, performs and acts.