ACME BRAND X COMPOSITION
RETRACTABLE PEN
Designed by ADRIAN OLABUENAGA
who was born in 1955 in Buenos Aires Argentina but grew up and was
educated in Los Angeles, California. Raised with an architectural
background,he has from a young age, been inspired by architecture,
design and art. Primarily working in a medium of functional art,
his first solo show was in 1983, featuring his famous art radios
and furniture. In 1985, he founded ACME Studios with Lesley Bailey
his wife. His jewelry designs were included in the “MEMPHIS
Designers for ACME” collection, as suggested by Ettore Sottsass.
His necklace “Atomic” from that collection won him an award with
DESIGN Plus, Germany . His brooch and earrings from the same
collection were featured in the MEMPHIS exhibition in 2005, at
Museum of Decorative Arts in Frankfurt , Germany. Not only is he
the CEO, and creative director of ACME but he also currently
designs for Ritzenhoff, Boeing, Disney, Mercedes Benz, Warner Bros.
and many others, as well as creating corporate identities and brand
ing for many companies.
