About

Born in Chambéry, France. 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, dedicaded to Audi, Adidas and Givenchy, and also the trendy sport club Klay. His current career as artistic director and illustrator 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, Quiksilver or major ad agencies 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 who selected him among 100 illustrators worldwide. With the comics books The Claws of Styx and The Revolt of Sky ( Maho publishing ), he signed in 2020 the first opus of the SF transmedia universe Blackfury that he created.

In the field of communication, advertising and entertainment, he also collaborated with famous contributors and has to thank Adriana Karembeu, Ariel Wizman, Bettina Rheims, Bongo, Bryan Singer, Dominique Issermann, Estelle Hallyday, Ellen Von Unwerth, Eva Erzigova, Frédéric Michalak, Jean-Loup Sieff, Kenzo Takada, Laetitia Casta, Lenny Kravitz, Lou Douillon, Madeleine Peyroux, Manu Chao, Mert & Markus, Nadav Kander, Olga Kurylenko, Peggy Sirota, Philippe Starck, Pom Klementieff, Sibyl Buck, Sophie Auster, Richard Dacoury, Zinedine Zidane, Wing Shya, etc...