All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
A few months ago we started an exciting project, and we have called it the Openhouse. It’s not a church, of course, it’s not a Bible study group or anything like what we know, it’s simply a new experience to connect with [...]
The Costa Rican Association of Advertising Agencies approved yesterday in an Extraordinary General Assembly, its opening to commercial communication companies, among others, public relations agencies, media centers, interactive agencies, btl and promotions. When ASCAP was founded 50 years ago, it brought together [...]
Manuel Gavilán Sánchez, that same don Manolo who always greeted us with energy and affection, who always asked me about my parents and entrusted me to bring them a greeting, the one who was a pillar in the advertising of our country [...]
“Our body naturally produces a hormone responsible for increasing joy and eliminating pain. for increasing joy and eliminating pain, this hormone is called endorphin. name of endorphin. Many times we have found ourselves enjoying a feeling of joy, happiness, and the desire [...]
London, 29th January 2009 – Entrant companies can now submit work to compete at the 56th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in all categories – Film, Press, Outdoor, Direct, Media, Cyber, Radio, Promo, Design, Titanium, Integrated and the new PR Lions category. [...]
It’s in ourselves!
Consumer was born from a sum of stars aligned in the same direction. One of them was Rafael Calderón Mugica, whom I met at the UCR and with whom I became a friend and brother in life. When I returned from Mexico [...]
In the early days of our agency, located in the room of my parents’ house that my brother Carlos vacated, the then Consumer had its first network: a Mac 512 and a Mac SE, my brother’s computer and mine. From one desk [...]
Jorge Galeano’s memory will live forever in our memories, because his role was crucial in the beginning of our company. Que de Dios Goce, Jorge opened the first accounting books, made the first financial statements and came to put order in that [...]
We brought him from McCann-Erickson with a mission, to make him the first digital artfinalist in the country. As a young master of graphic arts, Fernando turned to Mac to learn the new way of making art. He dedicated, on one long [...]
Alvaro Fernández entered our agency with the credentials of Doña Rotunda on his chest, a character created for the National Lottery that made havoc, history and provoked big smiles. With us, he dedicated much of his talent to Cofal, as well as [...]
When I proposed to Marjorie González to move from GM (Gutiérrez Machado), a respectable agency of those years, she accepted for reasons that I still don’t understand, since she decided to join an embryonic company and the one she was joining as [...]
