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Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind 344design.com, store344.com, and of course, dailymonster.com. He is the author and designer of "All Access -- The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers." The Art Directors Club selected him for their biennial "Young Guns" exhibit in 2004.
Way back in 1997 he was an art director at Wieden + Kennedy's Portland office, but got fired after a year. He returned to Los Angeles and freelanced for pretty much every major record label around. These days he is creating gratuitously ambitious work for people as diverse as David Hockney, Tarsem, and the general manager of Per Se. His illustrated column "ink & circumstance" appears in the pages of STEP Inside Design Magazine.
He still designs CDs every now and then, and consults for ad agencies like Saatchi LA and TBWA/Chiat/Day. Sting has called his illustrations "fucking ugly." Steve Jobs felt that his designs looked "like a fucking Happy Meal" and Bill Gates never really cared for anything he's done.
Shortly after midnight on November 9th, 2006 he filmed himself blowing some ink on a piece of paper and making it into a monster. He put the result online as a 60-second movie and linked it to his blog. For the next 99 days, he posted a new monster every night without fail and was shocked to find himself the seed crystal for a brilliant community of monster obsessives that used his drawings as an excuse to to tell stories. Lots of stories!
With the original 100 monsters done, he opened up the site to his visitors, giving them the opportunity to submit their own creature drawings based on a weekly Open Source Ink Blot. You've really got to check it out: www.dailymonster.com
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