STERN BLOOM MEDIA, INC.
AVENTURA, FLORIDA

Stern Bloom Media is an integrated print publishing and product photography studio, focused on creating the best brand image for our customers. For over 20 years we have helped manufacturers, catalogers and magazine publishers with all of their print publishing and photography needs. Craftsmanship is what sets apart our print publications and product photography. At Stern Bloom Media, our talented team of experts has the creativity and technical savvy to make any brand or project look its finest. We specialize in creating and managing all elements of the production process. Our design-team approach includes both creative and detail-oriented designers who come from a wide range of technical and creative backgrounds. In 1998, a creative entrepreneur running a small graphic design studio approached her fiancé, in his first year of law school and working a part-time clerking job, with an idea to start a magazine. The pair partnered up with a long-time friend, vetted the concept and started the business – each investing $150 to get their new company off the ground. With their $450, creativity, grit, good timing and a measure of luck, the trio soon proved the concept viable, and a new local lifestyle magazine was born. Ask founding partners Amit Bloom, David Bloom and Michael Stern about their formula for building a successful magazine and business, and you’ll hear words like friendship, collaboration honesty, integrity and perseverance. These values have permeated the story of Stern Bloom Media. When a recession hit the country ten years into the life of their thriving AVENTURA magazine, the partners were determined to work through the downturn. Along with their team, they pursued new ideas in parallel with the magazine, ultimately leveraging an existing infrastructure to offer print publishing. More recently, Stern Bloom Media added commercial product photography to its offerings, in response to customer needs. The company also adopted a business operating system to maximize talent and strengthen the organization for the next level of growth. Today, Stern Bloom Media is a print publishing and commercial photography studio focused on crafting the finest brand image for customers. With more than 20 years of proven success, the company has a reputation for delivering reliability, creativity and expertise through collaborative customer relationships. "We were looking for a turnkey operation with the tools to provide us the photography, layout, and editing we needed.... "We were looking for a turnkey operation with the tools to provide us the photography, layout, and editing we needed. Stern Bloom Media delivered." Praise for commercial photography: “He can both direct and photograph…he knows the ins and outs of our business. He’ll realize... Praise for commercial photography: “He can both direct and photograph…he knows the ins and outs of our business. He’ll realize an issue while shooting an image – catches things I don’t and adjusts.” “Stern Bloom Media has made themselves available whenever needed. They’ve taken the time to really learn our business.” “Stern Bloom Media has made themselves available whenever needed. They’ve taken the time to really learn our business.” Over the past 75 years, Gulfstream Park had accumulated tens of thousands of photographs, newspaper clippings and memorabilia that were not organized in any fashion, nor stored in one locale. Stern Bloom Media’s challenge went above and beyond conceptualizing a memorable and appealing design for the anniversary book. SBM needed to compile and organize literally stacks of photographs, and piece them together to tell a detailed history, both visually and editorially, in only 242 pages. We facilitated the entire printing process to ensure the optimal reproduction of our files on press. “So much has happened over the past 75 years at Gulfstream, and we felt this was the perfect opportunity to honor Gulfstream’s past, present and future,” said Gulfstream Park President and The Stronch Group’s Chief Operations Officer, Tim Ritvo. “[Stern Bloom Media] did a wonderful job of compiling photographs and researching this historical thoroughbred facility and detailing its past. The photography is beautiful and the stories memorable. I was amazed to read and look at photos from Opening Day in 1939 all the way to this winter. The book will preserve our history while we eagerly look ahead to all the great things that will be happening at Gulfstream in the future.” "We were looking for a turnkey operation with the tools to provide us the photography, layout, and editing we needed.... "We were looking for a turnkey operation with the tools to provide us the photography, layout, and editing we needed. Stern Bloom Media delivered." Praise for commercial photography: “He can both direct and photograph…he knows the ins and outs of our business. He’ll realize... Praise for commercial photography: “He can both direct and photograph…he knows the ins and outs of our business. He’ll realize an issue while shooting an image – catches things I don’t and adjusts.” “Stern Bloom Media has made themselves available whenever needed. They’ve taken the time to really learn our business.” “Stern Bloom Media has made themselves available whenever needed. They’ve taken the time to really learn our business.” "We were looking for a turnkey operation with the tools to provide us the photography, layout, and editing we needed.... "We were looking for a turnkey operation with the tools to provide us the photography, layout, and editing we needed. Stern Bloom Media delivered." Praise for commercial photography: “He can both direct and photograph…he knows the ins and outs of our business. He’ll realize... Praise for commercial photography: “He can both direct and photograph…he knows the ins and outs of our business. He’ll realize an issue while shooting an image – catches things I don’t and adjusts.” “Stern Bloom Media has made themselves available whenever needed. They’ve taken the time to really learn our business.”