STILLS & STROKES

For almost 15 years Stills & Strokes are delivering creative solutions in the the field of beauty, fashion, design and culture. They are known for bold colours, patterns and experimental artistic ways of commercial product presentation. They seamlesly merge analogue and digital techniques to create surreal little worlds of their own. They love products and telling their stories with fun and charme.

Stills & Strokes was founded by Art Director Melanie Vorbeck and photographer Stefan Vorbeck, the couple is based in Berlin.



TEACHING / LECTURES 

2014 they taught editorial design at the Academy of Fashion and Design in Hamburg, Germany

2017 they had been part of the PUIG Inspiration Tour Berlin, Germany

2018 they spoke at the reknowned Design Festival USbyNight in Antwerp, Belgium

since 2023 they are teaching studio photography at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel, Germany



EXHIBITIONS

2014 Soirée Graphique, Switzerland

2014 Photography Playground, Germany

2018 Bikini Berlin, Germany



AWARDS

2013 ADC GERMANY for the cover of the Kultur SPIEGEL
/ category ‘Editorial – Cover – Magazine’

2014 ADC SWITZERLAND BRONZE for a contribution to the Soirée Graphique / category ‘Photography and Illustration’



ARTICLES

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/stills-and-strokes

http://trendland.com/fashion-freaks-by-stills-strokes/


CLIENTS INCLUDE

BEAUTY:
Diptyque
Schwarzkopf
Hourglass
Sephora
BABOR
Clarins
Chanel
Klapp
Catrice
Sebamed

LUXURY/ LIFESTYLE:
KPM
Meissen
Rosenthal
Lamy
Caparol ICONS
Siedle
Sony
BMW
MINI
Swarovski
Wempe

FASHION:
Nike
Asics
Dolce & Gabbana
Wandler
Aspesi
Deichmann

FOOD:
The Jelly Bean Factory
Heineken

DEPARTMENT AND CONCEPT STORES:
Galeries Lafayette
KaDeWe
Oberpollinger
Alsterhaus
Jelmoli
BIKINI Berlin
House of Frasure
Colette

ONLINE SHOPS:
Zalando
Mr. Porter
mytheresa.com

OTHERS:
Telekom
Deutsche Bahn


INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINES:
Garage
Wallpaper
Harper’s Bazaar (DE, CZE, GRC, KSA, SGP, SP, SRB, TUR)
Bolero
GQ (DE, IT)
AD (DE, IND, IT)
Intersection (DE, FR)
Flair (IT)
ICON (DE, IT)

GERMAN MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS:
Interview
Numero
KaDeWe
Sleek
Esquire
Fräulein
TUSH
Focus
Monopol
BrandEins
Kultur SPIEGEL
NEON
Nido
ZEIT
ZEIT Magazin
FAZ Quarterly
SZ Magazin

For several years they had monthly publications in Interview Magazine (DE), GQ (IT) and Zeit Newspaper.







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