John Godfrey
John Godfrey is an award-winning Canadian interdisciplinary artist who utilizes references from pop culture, advertising, and entertainment to playfully subvert, question, and repurpose the conflicting messages these present-day icons disseminate across generations. His multifaceted practice resides at the intersection between digital art, illustration and object-based works, imbued with irony and a wry sense of humour.
John is a prolific movie poster designer, having created over 150 official movie posters, including winning the jury award for movie poster design at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival. His work for film advertising has been recognized internationally, including two Entertainment Clio Awards, five Graphis awards, and a Golden Trailer Award.
Godfrey’s artistic works have been licensed for limited-edition Collective Arts cans distributed to dozens of countries worldwide. Two limited edition releases of his works sold out in minutes at Brooklyn’s pop culture-focused Bottleneck Gallery. Two of his large-scale digitally-printed murals were displayed at Jackson Square and the Hamilton Farmers Market, both in Hamilton, CA.
Awards
- SXSW Jury Award
- Entertainment Clio Award x2
- Graphis Award x7
- RGD Social Good Award x2
Publications
- AOL Daily Finance
- Adobe
- Digital Arts
- Film Independent
- Film Music Daily
- Inc Magazine
- LogoLounge 10
- LogoLounge 11
- Photoshop User Magazine
- ScreenAnarchy
- The Film Stage
- The Hamilton Spectator
- Web Design Index 6
- Web Design Index 8
Clients
- 1091 Pictures
- 20th Digital
- 300 Entertainment
- A-Trak
- AFI Conservatory
- Adobe
- CBC
- CFC
- Entertainment One
- Focus Features
- Level Film
- Los Angeles Times
- Mike Garson
- Ministry Of Sound
- Monstercat
- Moving Picture Institute
- Myriad Pictures
- National Film Board of Canada
- Ontario Science Centre
- Shaftesbury Films
- Sinking Ship Entertainment
- Sony Music
- SundanceNow
- Tyson Beckford
- Warner Music Group
- Wattpad
