Give your food
brand a reason
to be chosen.
Launching a food or beverage CPG product?
Updating your restaurant menu?
Planning a social campaign?
Food Polka creates the strategy, ideas, content and experiences to bring it to your audience.
appetizing.
What do you need
the work to do?
Choose the application. We’ll bring together the right strategic creative thinking, creative and production expertise for the job.
01Launch or reposition a product
Give people a reason to try it. Turn what makes your food or beverage different into a clear story and launch content.
- Use it for: product launches, brand refreshes + new audiences
- What we create: concepts, product stories + launch imagery
- How: consumer understanding, creative direction, photography + film
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02Make your menu work harder
Help customers see what to order. Present your dishes clearly and consistently across every place customers choose their food.
- Use it for: menu boards, online ordering, delivery apps + POS
- What we create: dish imagery, menu visuals + restaurant content
- How: food presentation, technical styling, photography + motion
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03Build an advertising campaign
Make the message worth noticing. Show your product in a story, scene or occasion that makes sense to the people you want to reach.
- Use it for: paid ads, branded films + awareness campaigns
- What we create: campaign concepts, films + still imagery
- How: culinary storytelling, direction, styling + coordinated production
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04Show your product where it sells
Make the food easy to understand—and want. Create product images for packaging, shopping pages and the materials that support the sale.
- Use it for: packaging, e-commerce, retail displays + sales materials
- What we create: product heroes, serving ideas + ingredient imagery
- How: precise food/beverage styling, photography + retouching
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05Keep your content working
Build beyond a single post or shoot. Create useful, connected content for your website, social channels and future campaigns.
- Use it for: social campaigns, websites + recurring content
- What we create: recipes, lifestyle stories, reusable assets + variations
- How: content planning, photography, video, stop-motion + AI-assisted adaptation
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06Create a food story or experience
Give people something to connect with. Bring your food to life through recipes, editorial stories, chef content or a memorable event.
- Use it for: publications, recipe content, branded events + private dinners
- What we create: original recipes, food stories + culinary experiences
- How: recipe development, culinary production, styling + event design
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Different briefs.
The same attention to food.
Food knowledge.
Consumer understanding.
Hands-on craft.
Knowing how food looks is one thing. Knowing what makes people want it is another.
I’m a creative director, culinary producer and food-focused content strategist with a background in sociology and consumer behavior. I connect the idea behind the work with what actually happens in the kitchen, on set and on screen.
Hire me for a specialist role, or work with Food Polka on a coordinated production. I bring together the creative and production collaborators your project needs.
Meet Marta ↗You know what you need.
A styling brief, recipe development, a shoot or a film. Bring us in for the job at hand.
Let’s bring it together.
Creative development, production planning and execution, scoped around your audience and intended use.
Build beyond one shoot.
Plan campaigns and reusable content together, with a custom package or ongoing creative partnership.
The full range of Food Polka.
Looking for a particular media format or style? Explore the portfolio
What’s on
your plate?
Tell us what you’re making, who it’s for and where you need a hand. A rough idea is enough to start.
Continue to the contact page to send your brief.
Or book a free 30-minute intro call ↗Stories & shop.
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