Bella Luce illuminates on NU107

MANILA, Philippines - In the saturated world of magazine publishing, there rises a source that strives to provide specialist magazines founded on insightful content, cutting-edge design, and unmatched print quality. Bella Luce Publications Inc. offers their readership a portfolio of the most sought-after international titles for our local market.

Their first title, Digital Photographer Philippines, was published in June 2006 and is now the leading photography magazine in the Philippines. Following the success of this title, Bella Luce expanded its portfolio into other genres: iCreate magazine is the only Mac magazine in the Philippines; Wedding Belle is a fun, friendly, cute, glossy that caters to modern and stylish brides; and Junior is the country’s premiere parenting title. In May 2010, they launched the much-anticipated Lonely Planet Magazine, which remains the traveler’s choice for comprehensive destination information.

The husband and wife team of Nick and Pilar Tuason are the brains and brawn behind this successful publishing house. Managing director Nick Tuason, hailing from Redondo Beach, California, utilized his business administration degree from Loyola Marymount University to foster and groom the country’s premiere provider of specialist magazines.

Pilar, a successful wedding photographer and editor in chief of Digital Photographer magazine, oversees the photo editing of all their magazine titles. As one of the country’s leading fashion photographers, Pilar’s work has recently been seen with billboard/print campaigns for Penshoppe. Her respected body of work gained the prestigious honor of being the first female photographer to be recognized as a Canon Camera Philippines brand endorser.

Together, their efforts have been instrumental in developing the skill of the emerging Filipino photographer. Their annual Digital Photographer Philippines’ anniversary party that offers free photo instruction, critique and competition hosted close to 2,000 budding photographers at the recent “Unleashed” party at Bonifacio High Street. The magazine’s online forum counterpart http://digitalphotographer.com.ph/ is the most trafficked source for photo info exchange in the country.

Listen to NU107’s The Magazine Show, hosted by model Raya Mananquil and surfer-photographer Mark Dimalanta, today at 12 noon, to hear what drives Bella Luce’s success and talk shop about DPP’s current theme: “The Artistic Nude,” with one of the country’s best photography/publishing tandems.

Also, get blown away with “The Reel Score” as Roanna Ruiz and Martin Jelsma discuss the film Iron Man and play tracks from the OST featuring Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Filter and more. Joining them is guest American Iron Worker James Lyster, who coincidentally has put up a tattoo parlor he named after himself: Ironman. Listen to both shows, back to back as the “The Reel Score” precedes “The Magazine Show” today, from 11 a.m. to 12 noon, only on NU107.