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A gold Patek Philippe watch is centred against a bright yellow background. It is layered over thick gold chains and abstract pink and orange shapes.
A gold Patek Philippe watch is centred against a bright yellow background. It is layered over thick gold chains and abstract pink and orange shapes.

Stills & Strokes creates flashy jewellery editorials for Interview Germany

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16 September 2015

We featured Stills & Strokes over a year ago for their project capturing glasses of smoothies at their most garish. Since then the duo, made up of art director and illustrator Melanie Homann and photographer Stegan Vorbeck, have been busy creating editorial spreads for multiple magazines, most notably for Germany’s version of Interview.

Rolex watches and Bulgari bracelets look almost cartoonish in Stills & Strokes’ sophisticated collage-style spreads. Bright coloured shapes and graphics dance behind the jewellery, with added chains and links that increase the lux factor. It’s the extravagant and ostentatious feel to Stills & Strokes work that I love so much as they fully embrace the glittering goods of this world; what sets them apart from others is their ability to do it in a well-crafted and composed manner.

A digital collage of five golden, stylised bear figures set against a deep blue background. One figure is outlined in orange, while another partially overlaps a pink and black polka-dot shape.
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A collage of two gold watches set against a background of bold, colourful geometric shapes. The top watch is an Omega Seamaster with a diamond-set bezel, while the bottom is a Cartier with Roman numerals.
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A collage of three gold diamond rings arranged against a blue halftone background. Each ring is filled with a different solid colour: orange, blue and green.
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A digital collage of a gold Rolex Day-Date watch. The watch face is modified with the word “Freitag” at the top, set against a background of radiating geometric shapes in pink, blue, yellow and grey.
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A 3D render of a gold, diamond-encrusted watch floating amidst several large, hollow rings. The rings are in shades of gold, white, black and green against a deep blue background.
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A gold-toned Calvin Klein watch is centred against a bold, geometric background. The backdrop features sharp shards of blue, yellow, and pink, with a section of black and white halftone dots.
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About the Author

Rebecca Fulleylove

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Rebecca Fulleylove is a freelance writer and editor specialising in art, design and culture. She is also senior writer at Creative Review, having previously worked at Elephant, Google Arts & Culture, and It’s Nice That.

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