Stefan Bucher

Stefan G. Bucher is a man possessed. When an idea pops into his head he can’t stop until he somehow makes it real. Over the years this has led him to move from his native Germany to Southern California, where he got himself a degree from a killer art school. It pushed him to work as an art director at one of the world’s best ad agencies in one of the world’s wettest cities. It also got him fired from said agency less than a year later.

He then moved back to Los Angeles and became the man behind the 344 Design Empire. He has designed CD covers for just about every major record company and for a few minor ones, too. He has done work for Sting and Whitney Houston, and once rode in an elevator with the great Hunter S. Thompson three times in a row.

Now that everybody downloads their music on iTunes he has moved on to making books and art catalogs. He’s good at it, too. British Design & Art Direction gave him a Yellow Pencil for “Most Outstanding Complete Book Design” for his design of the five-and-a-half pound American Photography 17 annual, which—if you’re not following the graphic design awards circuit—is a very impressive thing. In 2004 the Art Directors Club of New York declared him a Young Gun, which wasn’t too shabby, either.

He wrote and designed the gratuitously ambitious book "All Access—The Making of 30 Extraordinary Graphic Designers" and spent two years writing and illustrating “ink & circumstance,” a column on life, love and graphic design for STEP inside design magazine.

In his free time, Mr. Bucher enjoys...
Wait, strike that. Free time? Does not compute.
Mr. Bucher enjoys his work.