STEVEN GUARNACCIA is an illustrator and designer who has designed watches for Swatch, cards for the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., jewelry for ACME, and rugs for Reactor. His picture books include Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A Tale Moderne, published by Abrams. Steven has had one-man shows in New York, Toronto and Milan, and has designed murals for Disney Cruise Lines. He is on the faculty of the MFA Design Program at the School of Visual Arts.
ACME Studios is an international product design company founded in Los Angeles 1985. The success factor is the intensive cooperation with globally recognized architects, designers, artists, foundations, estates and institutions. In 1997, ACME released their first collection of fine writing tools.
The company's founders, Adrian Olabuenaga and Lesley Bailey, launched ACME in 1985 with a collection of jewelry designed by Peter Shire, a member of the world-renowned Memphis Group. This graduated to working with all fourteen Memphis Designers such as Andrea Branzi, Michele De Lucchi and Ettore Sottsass.