STEPHANE GODDARD

About the author

Born in Chambéry, graduate of La Martinière and L’Ensaama.

Obsessed with punchy images, Stéphane Goddard is an artist with a singular and polymorphous style, worldwide known for his illustrations as irreverent as they are offbeat, inspired by fashion and sports. The world of the big advertising agencies has no secrets for him: he was for years one of its most popular artistic directors. One of his famous feats of arms is the Adidas worldcup campaign «Victory is within us» in 1998. He was the founding partner and artistic director of several successful ad agencies , and also the trendy sport club Klay. His current career as an illustrator and artistic director has opened the doors of major media such as ELLE during 12 years, but also Libération, Les Inrocks or Télérama. Louis Vuitton, Nike, Club med or Quiksilver regularly call on his talent. . His works are sold at Christie’s or Art Curial, and are diffused throughout the world through exhibitions and books, especially with Taschen. With the comics books The Claws of Styx and The Revolt of Sky ( Maho publishing ), he signed in 2020 the first opus of the transmedia universe Blackfury that he created.