Each year Creativity cite those people and companies that made the biggest impact across all areas of creative culture. There are advertising and marketing people on the list. There are also tech pioneers, designers, directors, entrepreneurs, and others who challenged the established way of doing things and inspired with their action. Do you feel this list is a fair assessment of the most creative individuals of last year? Or is it unfair? are there people on the list you feel should not be or maybe people that should be that aren’t? Let us know you views. Leave your Cretiques in the comment box below.
Via Creativity
James Cameron, Director
Zugara’s Matthew Szymczyk
The co-founder of the useful AR company on proprietary tech, usability and how getting laid off isn’t such a bad thing
Kogi’s Chef Roy Choi
Kogi’s co-founder on street food culture, hair gel, and hitting rock bottom with Emeril
Vivian Rosenthal and Jesse Seppi
Designers/Directors/Experience Creators and Co-founders of Tronic Studio
Ty Montague
Co-president, North America CCO, JWT
Tor Myhren
Chief creative officer, Grey, New York
Tom Kuntz
Director, MJZ
Spike Jonze
Director, MJZ
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan
Founders, Posterous
Roger Stighall, Robert Lindstrom, David Eriksson, Co-founders, North Kingdom
James Hilton, Co-founder/CCO and Rei Inamoto CCO, AKQA
Ray Tintori, Director, Partizan
Pranav Mistry, PhD Candidate, MIT Media Lab
Neill Blomkamp, Director, RSA
Mike Hughes President, Martin Agency
Michael Lebowitz, Founder/CEO, Big Spaceship
Matthew Szymczyk, Hans Forsman, Creative Directors, Zugara
Matt Ross, Creative Director; Matt Oxley, Head of Tech, Tribal DDB London
Matt Jones, Director of Design, Berg
Marco Arment, Lead Developer, Tumblr; Creator, Instapaper
Linus Karlsson and Paul Malmstrom, co-founders/CCOs, Mother New York
Lady Gaga, Musical Artist
Keith Schofield,
Director, Caviar/El Nino
Kathryn Bigelow, Director The Hurt Locker
Karin Dreijer Andersson, aka Fever Ray, Musical Artist
KR Sridhar, CEO, Bloom Energy
Jonathan Ive,
Senior VP Industrial Design, Apple
Rob Reilly, Andrew Keller, Jeff Benjamin, ECDs, Crispin Porter Bogusky
Jan Jacobs and Leo Premutico,
Co-founders, Creative Directors, Johannes Leonardo
James Farley, Group VP Global Marketing, Ford
Ge Wang
co-founder, CTO, CCO, Smule
Filip Nilsson
creative director/chairman, Forsman & Bodenfors
Eric Rodenbeck, Founder/Creative Director, Stamen Design
Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvedurai,
Co-founders, Foursquare
David Nobby Nobay,
Creative Chairman, Droga5 Sydney
David Droga,
Founder, Creative Chairman, Droga5
Daniel Ek,
Co-founder/CEO, Spotify
Damon Horowitz,
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, Aardvark
Damon Collins ECD, RKCR/Y&R
Craig Allen, Art Director, and Eric Kallman, Copywriter, Wieden and Kennedy Portland
Cindy Gallop, Entrepreneur,
Founder IfWeRanTheWorld.com
Christian Haas,
Creative Director/Associate Partner, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Blaise Aguera y Arcas,
Architect, Microsoft Live Labs
Bart Decrem CEO, Tapulous
Ashton Kutcher, Founder, Katalyst
Andrey Ternovskiy,
Founder of Chatroulette
Andreas Dahlqvist,
ECD, DDB Stockholm
Alex Bogusky,
Chief Creative Insurgent, MDC
