Biography
Obsessed with punchy images, Stéphane Goddard is an artist with a singular and polymorphous style, 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 campaign «Victory is within us» in 1998. His current career as an illustrator and artistic director has opened the doors of major media such as ELLE, Libération, Les Inrocks or Télérama. Louis Vuitton, Nike, Club med and Quiksilver regularly call on his talent. He was the founding partner and artistic director of the klay. His works are sold at Christie’s or curial art, and are diffused throughout the world through exhibitions and books. With the comics books La griffe du styx and la Révolte de Sky ( Éditions Maho ), he signed in 2020 the first opus of the transmedia universe Blackfury that he created.