The phrase "a commercial assignment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to business, work tasks, or projects that are intended for commercial purposes.
Example: "The team was tasked with completing a commercial assignment that involved developing a marketing strategy for a new product."
Alternatives: "a business project" or "a corporate task".
Mr. Johnston is also correct in asserting that Vigo's last and greatest film, "L'Atalante," was essentially a commercial assignment, but it would be wrong to conclude from this that the movie lacks social content.
He had gone to Staunton, Va., in 1955 on a commercial assignment to photograph modern comforts — air-conditioners — when he started shooting the trains of the Norfolk & Western Line.
Mr. Meyerowitz, who was raised in a working-class family in the Bronx, was working as an art director at an advertising firm when he was assigned to accompany Robert Frank on a mundane commercial assignment.
A pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, he is, like many (maybe all) artists, disdainful of people who buy art to match their sofas, but he is taking on this commercial assignment with high hopes — and for $35,000, at a time when that would buy you a couple of nice houses.
What was your first commercial assignment then?
A solution algorithm is provided, which has been completely developed and designed to be used within commercial assignment codes.
But this fall, when the Museum of Modern Art opens "New Photography 2010," many of the young practitioners will be putting a new twist on the concept: They are taking their own images from their commercial assignments — a past portrait for a magazine article, for instance, or a photo for a cosmetic advertisement — and remaking them in new ways.
Yet Fletcher was so gifted a designer that he imbued commercial assignments with depth, wit and meaning, even if they were as inauspicious as ads for slippers.
A perfectionist whose output was slim, Bernhard earned a living by teaching and taking on commercial assignments.
The Safdies seem to be constantly working, whether on commercial assignments (they are making a film for Benetton's fall campaign) or personal projects.
In between the weddings, portraits and commercial assignments — on which he raised a family — he shot quirky street images for his own pleasure.
