CREATIVITY 50
The February 2009 issue of Creativity featured the fourth annual listing of the Creativity 50, representing a multi–disciplinary account of 2008's biggest and best thinkers and doers in advertising and consumer culture. This annual list features creative directors, agency groundbreakers, directors, designers, and marketers, all of whom have had an impact on creativity.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2008
- Grant Achatz, Chef/Owner, Alinea
- Shai Agassi, Founder and CEO, Better Place
- Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
- David Axelrod and David Plouffe, Chief Strategist; Campaign Manager for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign
- Eric Barba and Ed Ulbrich, VFX Supervisor; Executive VP, Production/President, Commercials Division, Digital Domain
- Jamie Barrett And Steve Simpson, Partners/CDs, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
- Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, Editors, Rock Paper Scissors
- Jeff Bezos, Founder/CEO, Amazon.com
- Jonathan Blow, Game Auteur
- Alex Bogusky, Andrew Keller and Rob Reilly, Co-Chairman; ECDs, Crispin Porter + Bogusky
- John Boiler, Glenn Cole, Matt Jarvis and Robert Nakata, Principals, 72andSunny
- Fredrik Bond, Director, Sonny London and MJZ
- Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Co-Founders, Google
- Red Burns, Arts Professor/Chair, ITP
- Ben Burtt and Andrew Stanton, Sound Designer; Director/Writer, Wall-E
- Keith Butters, Robert Hodgin, Benjamin Palmer, Rick Webb and Bruce Winterton, Partners, The Barbarian Group
- David Byrne, Musician/Artist
- Stephen Colbert, Host, The Colbert Report
- David Droga, Creative Chairman, Droga5
- Bruce Duckworth and David Turner, Designers/Principals, Turner Duckworth
- Kareem Ettouney, Alex Evans, Mark Healey, Siobhan Reddy and Dave Smith, Game Developers/Founders, Media Molecule
- Shepard Fairey, Artist
- Jon Favreau and Jon Favreau, Director, Iron Man; Speechwriter for Barack Obama
- Tina Fey, Writer/Actor/Purveyor of Awesome
- David Fincher, Director, Anonymous Content
- Gary Flake, Founder and Director, Microsoft Live Labs
- Jason Fried, Co-Founder, CEO, 37Signals
- Zach Galifianakis, Comedian/Actor/Writer/Director
- Gerry Graf, CCO, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York
- Bob Greenberg and Nick Law, Chairman/CEO; CCO, North America, R/GA
- Virgil Griffith, Former Hacker/Developer, Wikiscanner
- Dean Kamen, Inventor
- Jason Kilar and George Kliavkoff, CEO, Hulu.com; Former CEO Hulu.com and NBC Chief Digital Officer
- Aaron Kobler, Technology Lead, Google Creative Lab
- Tom Kuntz, Director, MJZ
- Manuel Lima, Design Researcher/Information Architect
- Seth MacFarlane, Creator, The Family Guy
- Rachel Maddow, Host, MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show
- Mother, Advertising Agency
- Jean Nouvel, Architect
- Elizabeth Peyton, Artist
- Jason Rohrer, Computer Programmer and Independent Game Developer
- Callie Shell, Photographer
- Clay Shirkey, Author, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations/Associate Teacher, ITP
- Nate Silver, Statistician/Creator, FiveThirtyEight.com
- Carlos Ulloa, Developer, Papervision 3D
- Ge Wang, Co-Founder and CTO, Smule
- Matthew Weiner, Creator/Executive Producer/Writer/Director, Mad Men
- Dan Wieden, Co-Founder, Wieden + Kennedy
- Zhang Huan, Artist