Creativity has named it’s 50 for 2008 with a smashing cover (see it big here). You can get more info on all the winners here, but the men and women who made the list of high minded, classic philosophers (love it or hate it) are:
Frank Lantz and Kevin Slavin, area/code
Scott Vitrone, TBWA/Chiat/Day N.Y.
Tony Granger CCO, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York
Geoff Edwards, T.A.G
Jon Kamen and Frank Scherma, @radical.media
Laura Klauberg, Senior VP, global media, Unilever
Randy Krallman, Director, Smuggler
Ian Reichenthal, TBWA/Chiat/Day, N.Y.
Scott Duchon, T.A.G,
Ridley Scott, Director
Dan Wieden, Wieden+Kennedy
Janet Kestin, Nancy Vonk, Tim Piper Kestin,
Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto
Paula Scher, Pentagram
Shane Smith, VBS.tv
Eddy Moretti, VBS.tv
Will Gompertz, Tate
Rob Kalin, Founder, Etsy.com
Jonathan Ive, Senior VP of industrial design, Apple
Brad Neely, Writer/Animator
Jan Jacobs, Johannes Leonardo
Yves Behar, Fuseproject
Leo Premutico, Johannes Leonardo
Daft Punk, Musicians
Toshikazu Ieda, Yasuyuki Oka, Panasonic
Eran Egozy, Alex Rigopulos, Greg LoPiccolo, Helen McWillams, Harmonix’s
Robert Greenberg, Nick Law, R/GA
Senior creative director, Hakuhodo (Ieda); senior coordinator/advertising planning team, Panasonic (Oka)
Jaime Griesemer, Bungie
Juan Cabral, Fallon, London
Randy Krallman, Director
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
Rei Inamoto, AKQA
Tom Kuntz, Director
Zaha Hadid, Architect
Joel Coen, Director
Ethan Coen, Director
Simon Waterfall, Poke
Stefan Sonnenfeld, Colorist and Co-founder, Company 3
Radiohead, Musicians
Yugo Nakamura, Web designer, Tha Ltd.
Noam Murro, Director, Biscuit Filmworks
Harvey Marco, ECD, Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angeles
David Lubars, Chairman, CCO BBDO North America
Robert Lindström, Roger Stighäll, David Eriksson
Co-founders and CEO/CD, North Kingdom