About BMOG
History of BMOG
Debi Hurnblad, who has a passion for helping people and experience as a business owner, has a son who is incarcerated in a California State Prison. There, her son, Justin, met a very talented artist and now BMOG partner, Johnny Marino. Johnny is very committed to turning his life around and having a means of support for himself and a brighter future when he is released from prison. Justin, Debi’s son, wanted to help Johnny and knew that his mother would want to as well. So, he introduced Debi and Johnny and they decided to take Johnny’s incredible artwork and put it on apparel to launch a unique business before Johnny is released, helping him with that first step toward a new life.
Debi invited her best friend (and business specialist)from 10th grade, Bev Berry, to join the business and help them get it off the ground. Around the same time, Johnny began collaborating with our fourth partner, Brandon Diettert, another prison inmate with extraordinary artistic talents and also committed to changing his life. At that point, BMOG Apparel was launched!
Johnny and Brandon have continued to improve their artwork together to create a new art style called Bio Mechanical Organic Graffiti (BMOG). We hope you enjoy visiting our site and please know that any purchase you make is going toward helping our artists start a new life and never return to prison.
Artists and Co-Founders
Johnny Marino and Brandon Diettert
Johnny Marino and Brandon Diettert both hail from the Inland Empire in California, Growing up there 20 years apart. Marino surfed all high school and Diettert began skateboarding as soon as he could stand on his own. Both artists grew up drawn to everything "underground" from Hip Hop to Punk Rock to making a few poor choices and landing in prison where ther paths crossed. They began collaborating on music and all forms of art. Realizing the time they had on thier hands was precious and deciding to use it for something positive, thier collaboration was the match that lit the powder keg on their explosive artistic abilities within both. Quickly mastering every area of tattooing and pushing the envelope on skin, they realized there was no limit and decided to push the envelope with their creative apparel.
Inspired by other great tatoo and graffiti artists, they begun to break ground with their own original trademark style, and BMOG apparel was launched. The name BMOG came about as the artists continued to develop their unique and named it Bio Mechnical Original Graffiti. Their goal is establish and create an entirely new category of styles, products, and services that will be embraced worldwide.
Deborah Hurnblad
Debi's strong spiritual beliefs lead her to value responsibility and to have high ethics in both herself and others.
She began working at the age of 14 as model for Brook's Institute of Photography and knows the value of hard work to meet her goals. She and her husband have and owned and operated an automotive repair shop for over 30 years and along with raising their 4 sons has worked in the Real Estate field as a manager, trainer and spokesperson for Century 21. During her sons young years Debi sserved on several youth sports boards as fundraising and registration chairperson and helping to construct a youth sports facility. Once her children were raised she took a postion with a publishing firm as CFO and manager of human resources and shipping.
After recovering from a massive stroke at age 46, her heart was led to prison ministry and helping to find a way to help fight against the revolving door leading to our prisons overcrowding. Because of her love of art and the potential she saw of some of the imates an idea was formed to put their creations on clothing and other media.
There is not an obsticle she will not find a way around, a closed door where she doesn't find an open window, There are no strangers in her life only friends she hasn't met. Her faith gives her the willingness to help where solution may seem impossible and a vision for the future.
Presently she sits on the board of her church, is a part of the worship team and the team leader for women's ministry.
Bev Berry
Bev has over 25 years of business experience, including for profit and not for profit entities. She started and owned her own consulting and corporate training company, Castle Corporate Trainings, for 13 years, as well being the founder and Executive Director of The Adoption Center of Santa Barbara for over seven years. In addition, she owned a corporation with two Maternity Shops and was the Regional Trainer and Manager for a Massage Franchise Company. Bev has also been a high school teacher.
Due to this extensive background, Bev has worked with a hugely diverse population of people; pregnant teens and teen mothers, adoptive parents and birth parents, shop floor operators, miners, all levels of management including CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and probably every nationality. Through her acceptance of people’s differences, her humor and straightforward nature, she is able to encourage and enroll people in improving their lives.
Bev is extremely flexible and learns new industries and operations very quickly. She brings a great deal of knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm to BMOG.
