Blek le Rat first experimented with the image of the running man on the streets of Paris back in the early 1980s.

“We chose to use a pseudonym because we decided we wanted to remain anonymous as a way to challenge the locals….Who were the authors of these little rats, these bananas, the little running men and all the little stencils that we made during the day and sprayed come night throughout the fourteenth and the eighteenth districts of Paris?” Blek le Rat