JAMES WINES (SITE) is founder and president of SITE, an internationally known architecture and environmental arts organization chartered in New York City in 1970. He is also head of the School of Architecture at Pennsylvania State University. Wines is the designer of more than 200 architecture, interior design, public space, and landscape architecture projects, including clients like PepsiCo, General Mills, Swatch, MCA, Universal, MTV, McDonald’s, and Disney.
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.