Presenting SMart Book 2014, our latest photo annual showcasing the work of the entire Stockland Martel roster

02/14/2014 – 8:53 am

SMart Book 2014, our new photo annual, is hot off the presses and was recently shipped to our clients and colleagues in the creative industry. Designed by Design: MW and printed by GZD in Germany, it showcases images—and new self-portraits—by the entire Stockland Martel roster. We’re very proud of the book and even more proud […]

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Fulvio Bonavia photographs “olive objects” for Italian bank campaign

01/09/2014 – 8:15 am

Saatchi & Saatchi Milan recently commissioned Fulvio Bonavia to photograph items made of green olives for a campaign for Italian bank BPM. He shot 10 different “olive objects,” as he calls them, and these are among the first to be released… . . .

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New work: Fulvio Bonavia for Foxy

12/05/2013 – 7:38 am

Fulvio Bonavia recently shot this photo for Foxy Supersoft Color, an Italian toilet tissue that comes in three pastel shades. Who says toilet paper can’t be funny? . . .

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Fulvio Bonavia creates a photographic memento mori for French exhibition

11/12/2013 – 2:08 pm

For “Vanités,” a recent exhibition organized by Publicis Paris, 12 different artists were asked to create a memento mori—a piece of art symbolizing their own mortality. Fulvio Bonavia is one of the artists who was asked to participate. Below, the memento mori he produced for the show, which was on view on the Champs-Élysées, as […]

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Fulvio Bonavia’s still-life mashups featured in ad campaign for Britain’s John Lewis department store

07/18/2013 – 7:38 am

Popular British department store John Lewis recently installed a mini version of its equally popular Waitrose supermarkets inside the store, inspiring an ad campaign that called on Fulvio Bonavia’s clever still-life mashups of hard goods and foods and plant life. Here’s a look at the ads promoting the new Waitrose store at the Watford location […]

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The photos that caught your eye

05/20/2013 – 11:35 am

The Stockland Martel Blog turned 4 this spring, so we thought it would be fun to look back at the posts that attracted the most views over the years. But instead of a list of links, our retrospective takes the form of the gallery below. Click on any image to view the whole thing as […]

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Fulvio Bonavia creates conceptual still lifes for Swiss brand Firmenich using food and flowers

05/10/2013 – 8:16 am

In 2012, the venerable Swiss fragrance and flavor maker Firmenich commissioned photographer Fulvio Bonavia to create a campaign highlighting the company’s heritage and craftsmanship, which date back to 1895. Fulvio responded to the challenge by producing still lifes of accessories and arts-related items like a camera and a guitar crafted from ephemeral materials such as […]

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New automotive work by Fulvio Bonavia

05/01/2013 – 9:03 am

Fulvio Bonavia recently shot new car campaigns for Dacia, Renault, and Renault/Momo Design. All three were through Publicis Rome, created in collaboration with executive creative director Cristiana Boccassini, associate creative director Alexandra Todero, and art director Claudia Ganapini. Here’s a look… . .. . . .

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Self-portrait in white shirt and fish tie by Fulvio Bonavia

03/13/2013 – 2:49 pm

Asked to shoot a self-portrait in his signature style for our latest SMart Book photo annual, Fulvio Bonavia created this image of himself wearing a fish as a tie. The photo is a sly allusion to his immensely popular food-based fashion still lifes, many of which are collected in the book A Matter of Taste, […]

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“Fulvio Bonavia makes cauliflower bobble hats and watermelon helmets. Cool!” —It’s Nice That

10/15/2012 – 12:20 pm

It’s Nice That, a blog and print magazine “championing creativity across the art and design world,” recently featured Fulvio Bonavia‘s uniquely ingenious food-based fashion still lifes from his book A Matter of Taste. Click here to read “Fulvio Bonavia makes cauliflower bobble hats and watermelon helmets. Cool!”

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