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.” […]
Although Garnier BBDO wants to repeat agency of the year and jotabeqú wants to regain that status, the truth is that next Thursday’s Volcano has no favorites, or as they say, it could be a surprise. Personally, I think it will be [...]
I fully identify with all those who complain about the enormous distance between day-to-day life and what goes to a festival, when it comes to advertising creativity and commercial messages. It would be great if consumer activists united to demand that advertisers [...]
We are still living on the prayers of our grandparents, enjoying the blessings that come to us because of the hymns they sang and the petitions they made, says Jon Goode. Like him, we have a little more than others and [...]
I am thrilled to share with you this video of Sirena Huang, the violin child prodigy who at the age of 11 fascinates the whole world with her talent and virtuosity. She began her violin lessons at the age of 4, and [...]
BE, because we all have the opportunity to design and Simplify, Eliminate and Reduce. No matter where simplify overlaps with eliminate or reduce, and thus, it is irrelevant semantics as long as we focus on Simplify, Eliminate and Reduce. BE, it’s just [...]
When you walk around Cannes, it is not surprising that Bob Isherwood, Fabio Fernandez or Pablo del Campo, to name three of Saatchi’s creative figures, are suddenly stopped at the Croissette to ask for autographs, just as it should not be surprising [...]
In our search for bigger ideas than ads at Saatchi Saatchi, the Battle of the Surfaces, the brainchild of Pablo del Campo, achieved a reach across the globe unprecedented in the history of tennis. These days, and through this channel as well [...]
The lenses we use in life are tinged with subjectivity and perceptions, so there is no quick fix or easy solution in the appreciation of any event, especially those that affect us emotionally. In the theory of knowledge, subjectivity is the property [...]
A Lovemark is irresistible and Apple knows how to do it like no one else. Nothing more to say. This is how Steve Jobs presented it in San Francisco. My first personal computer was an Apple IIc, and with it, my first [...]
