This week is the "2004 top 50" for the Financial Times' Creative Business supplement (which is under threat according to a report in today's Guardian)... and there's space for a few stars of the technology industry:
Ron Festejo, the developer of the Sony EyeToy (which has shifted 3.5m units in a little over a year); Emma Sommerville, head of the BBC's interactive TV programming; Peter Gabriel, the musician and founder of OD2 ... and, of course, Jonathan Ive, Apple's VP of Industrial Design who is credited with leading the charge to forge "the company's most revolutionary designs".
"When Bono took to the stage last month to launch Apple Computer's newest iPod digital music player - a U2-branded black and red special edition unit - the lead singer of the band made a point of praising the quiet and self-effacing designer who helped make it all happen."
"Jonathan Ive, the 37-year-old British-born designer who leads Apple Computer's industrial design team, must be used to the praise."
(the list proclaims itself as "not a list of the powerful, as measured by titles on the nation's corporate nameplates... [but] a celebration of... the power of individuals... to take an idea and turn it into a cash-generating business")
