A Teaching Moment About Business And Life
(Anthony Meek / Acme Illustrators)
Acme Illustrators (shown via The Big Picture) is a business doing, well, illustration.
Acme Sez, This Ain't 1933: Government Is Not Your Friend
Anthony Freda, the individual who created the Trompe l'oil chalkboard at the top, recently had a show at the Trifecta Gallery in Las Vegas, entitled "Work Makes You Free". I'm not sure whether this is an ironic title or not, but Freda has a good technique.
Much of Acme's current work for publications and websites appears to support the various themes which Business so dearly loves to believe: It's a Hard World; When The Going Gets Tough; If You Can't Stand The Heat; Save Your Pennies (And Give Them All To Us).
As an artist, I can understand doing things necessary to keep the lights on, but I'm always reminded of the work of some Italian and German designers during the mid-1930's, and the beautiful covers of Forbes, the Free Market's brochure magazine during the same period: Great work, but in service of what?
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