Stefan Bucher's guest appearances

Stefan Bucher

Design Matters with Debbie Millman Archive: 2005-2009

Escape From Illustration Island

Skylight Books Podcast Series

Hacking the Red Circle

Dissection

Michael Bierut

Luke Hayman

Emily Oberman

Tobias Frere-Jones

Marian Bantjes

Chris Daley

Shepard Fairey

Benjamin Franklin

Jon Hamm

Kate Schatz

Miriam Klein Stahl

Kurt Andersen

Michelle Tea

Malcolm Gladwell

Matt Bell

OwlTail

In 2011 Stefan Bucher, an award-winning Designer, presented at TEDxAmericanRiviera (now known as TEDxSantaBarbara.) He recently spoke with Mark Sylvester about reflections of his road to the Red Circle. Stefan speaks to audiences large and small and travels the world talking about design, typically to designers. He remarks that stepping onto the TEDx stage is unlike any other event. For Organizers, hearing this conversation will help you understand the thinking of an accomplished speaker when understanding how different the TEDx experience is - and how he'd wished he'd taken more advantage of our help. You'll get some great tips on how to coach your speakers by listening to him.Stefan's hack for speakers is to consider how you open your talk and capture the imagination and energy of the audience. He suggests using a musical opening, much like the overture to a Broadway play. You'll see how he used this in his talk from 2011. We've posted Stefan's talk below so you can watch, then listen to this episode so that you can understand the context of his answers.

In 2011 Stefan Bucher, an award-winning Designer, presented at TEDxAmericanRiviera (now known as TEDxSantaBarbara.) He recently spoke with Mark Sylvester about reflections of his road to the Red Circle. Stefan speaks to audiences large and small and travels the world talking about design, typically to designers. He remarks that stepping onto the TEDx stage is unlike any other event. For Organizers, hearing this conversation will help you understand the thinking of an accomplished speaker when understanding how different the TEDx experience is - and how he'd wished he'd taken more advantage of our help. You'll get some great tips on how to coach your speakers by listening to him. Stefan's hack for speakers is to consider how you open your talk and capture the imagination and energy of the audience. He suggests using a musical opening, much like the overture to a Broadway play. You'll see how he used this in his talk from 2011. We've posted Stefan's talk below so you can watch, then listen to this episode so that you can understand the context of his answers.

Stefan Bucher TEDx Speaker - Reflections 8 years after his talk

LetterHeads: An Eccentric Alphabet (Unnamed Press) From the creator of the popular Daily Monster YouTube series comes a revolutionary new vision for “characters,” one that brings the alphabet hilariously alive. A very special design book, LetterHeads is the first to feature “sculpted“ portraits of letters, employing 3D modeling software, which has been used almost exclusively by Hollywood’s CGI and video game production community. Until now! LetterHeads is a graphic design book for creatives of any age, celebrating diversity and inspired by the people of the artist’s hometown of Los Angeles. Infused with unique personalities, surrounded by playful vocabulary and an intriguing color palette, the letters reflect just how alive language can be. The use of ground-breaking 3D technology acts as a link to not just the future of letterform creation, but education itself. • Molded and carved like a series of classical sculptures, but free of the gaudy paint jobs, the LetterHeads allow the quirks and nuances of each diverse character to emerge. • The LetterHeads are a landmark approach to letterform creation, combining decorative lettering of the 19th century with the crisp digital modeling of a Pixar blockbuster. • LetterHeads enfolds playful vocabulary with color literacy, celebrating the diversity of both letterforms and people. Stefan G. Bucher is an American writer, graphic designer and illustrator. He is the man behind the award-winning California design studio 344 Design. He is also the creator of the popular online animation series Daily Monster. For 100 days he filmed himself drawing a new monster every night, based on random ink blots. Visitors then posted stories about each monster on the blog. The clips have been viewed well over three million times and are collected, along with selected stories, in the book “100 Days of Monsters.” He is the subject of an hour-long documentary film about his life and work, produced as part of lynda.com’s “Creative Inspiration” series.

LetterHeads: An Eccentric Alphabet (Unnamed Press) From the creator of the popular Daily Monster YouTube series comes a revolutionary new vision for “characters,” one that brings the alphabet hilariously alive. A very special design book, LetterHeads is the first to feature “sculpted“ portraits of letters, employing 3D modeling software, which has been used almost exclusively by Hollywood’s CGI and video game production community. Until now! LetterHeads is a graphic design book for creatives of any age, celebrating diversity and inspired by the people of the artist’s hometown of Los Angeles. Infused with unique personalities, surrounded by playful vocabulary and an intriguing color palette, the letters reflect just how alive language can be. The use of ground-breaking 3D technology acts as a link to not just the future of letterform creation, but education itself. • Molded and carved like a series of classical sculptures, but free of the gaudy paint jobs, the LetterHeads allow the quirks and nuances of each diverse character to emerge. • The LetterHeads are a landmark approach to letterform creation, combining decorative lettering of the 19th century with the crisp digital modeling of a Pixar blockbuster. • LetterHeads enfolds playful vocabulary with color literacy, celebrating the diversity of both letterforms and people. Stefan G. Bucher is an American writer, graphic designer and illustrator. He is the man behind the award-winning California design studio 344 Design. He is also the creator of the popular online animation series Daily Monster. For 100 days he filmed himself drawing a new monster every night, based on random ink blots. Visitors then posted stories about each monster on the blog. The clips have been viewed well over three million times and are collected, along with selected stories, in the book “100 Days of Monsters.” He is the subject of an hour-long documentary film about his life and work, produced as part of <a href="http://lynda.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lynda.com</a>’s “Creative Inspiration” series.

STEFAN BUCHER READS FROM HIS BOOK LETTERHEADS

Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind 344lovesyou.com and dailymonster.com, which has spawned a book and the popular “Monster Maker” iOS app. He is the author of five other books, including the best-selling "344 Questions—The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment." He has created designs and illustrations for David Hockney, Judd Apatow, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is an ADC Young Gun and has won a D&amp;AD Yellow Pencil for book design, among many others. In this episode we speak with Stefan about the entrance of the Blue Man Theater which he designed for the Monte Carlo Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas.

Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind <a href="http://344lovesyou.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">344lovesyou.com</a> and <a href="http://dailymonster.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dailymonster.com</a>, which has spawned a book and the popular “Monster Maker” iOS app. He is the author of five other books, including the best-selling "344 Questions—The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment." He has created designs and illustrations for David Hockney, Judd Apatow, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is an ADC Young Gun and has won a D&amp;AD Yellow Pencil for book design, among many others.   In this episode we speak with Stefan about the entrance of the Blue Man Theater which he designed for the Monte Carlo Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas.

Episode 19: Stefan Bucher and the Blue Man Group

An interview with graphic designer, illustrator and Daily Monster creator Stefan Bucher.

An interview with graphic designer, illustrator and Daily Monster creator Stefan Bucher.