I start typing with an overwhelming sense of defeat. Not because the trip I’m about to describe — at the end of August — went badly, but because it feels almost impossible to put into words what I experienced there. No adjective seems big enough to capture what it truly means to live “Burning Man.” […]
Often the enemy is in ourselves. And indeed, agencies that have decided to pull out or quit are sending a message: deterioration, lack of leadership, lack of direction, fear of losing, that they have nothing to compete with, lack of creative, internal [...]
The Openhouse Project presents in Artecine Lindora: LOSING YOUR RELIGION, by Andy Stanley. Mondays, Feb. 15, 22, March 1, 8. 7:15 PM. Lindora, Costa Rica. And yes. Face it. Religion can get pretty strange pretty quickly. Mystical. Superstitious. Legalistic. Judgmental. Hypocritical. But [...]
All advertising agencies compete in the market, although only a few compete in local, regional or global creative festivals. And although it is not a rule, those that are confirmed as winners through creative competitions are generally more successful. Just as no [...]
Sometime in late 2008, Diego Garcia and I joked at Tribu thinking about the spectacular combination that would be achieved if it were possible to add Tribu to DDB. We entertained the idea for a moment and put it in the basket [...]
We started talking since April and finally today we are officially DDB. As a Christmas present and precisely on vacations, now DDB in Costa Rica will have five letters in front of us: Tribu. Encouraged by this new stage in our lives, [...]
“We’re about celebrating the good, not about denigrating the bad,” said Terry Savage at the last meeting of Cannes representatives in London. At the same time, he returned to the subject of scams to review Cannes’ new policy on this much-debated issue. [...]
Yesterday I saw you. Very clearly. Message received. Commitment accepted.
Tribu will be the bluest company in the region as of 2009. The evolution continues and we are moving from limits to possibilities!
From today in five weeks will be the Berlin Marathon. There will be Haile Gebreselassie in the lead, possibly the greatest marathon runner in history, world record with 2:04:26 in Berlin 2007. Also, about 30,000 runners behind, I hope to be [...]
And the clicks continue. Noah’s project is as creative as it is strange, as beautiful as it is weird, as artistic as it is self-centered, yet it is generous, meticulous and painstaking. Don’t miss his website with more than two thousand and [...]
In the voice of Bono and his U2, this is a song of deep meaning. There are those who start, those who return and those who keep searching. No matter where we are or what the starting point is today, perhaps the [...]
The volcanoes of Guatemala are imposing, spectacular and unmistakable, as has been BBDO in this country, led by Ernesto Villa and Victor Garcia. Their agency has been four years in a row the agency of the year in Antigüa, their creative product [...]
