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 […]
At the end of a careful selection process, Comunidad has chosen the two representatives for Costa Rica to the Young Marketers Competition at the next Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The winners are Melissa Quirós from FIFCO and Geoconda Fernández from [...]
The Royal Academy Dictionary does not recognize the word serendipity. Fortunately today there is a free encyclopedia called Wikipedia where it is defined as follows: A serendipity is a fortunate and unexpected discovery or find that occurs when you are looking for [...]
Every year the creative world celebrates the best of the best. It does it with applause, with ovations and with joy, with competitive pressure and with amazement, fascination and tension. It happens in the third week of June and in the south [...]
I’m convinced that magic happens outside of comfort zones. That’s all. Or is there more to say? Maybe there is. For those who prefer a little more development, someone would have to recommend some expert, as I am not one of them. [...]
2014 will bring a new opportunity for the country’s young creatives, 28 years old or younger at the time of the next Cannes Lions Festival. Under the organization of Comunidad and the main sponsorship of La Nación, 3 duos will be able [...]
Costa Rica has become a conglomerate that brings together world-class talent. They are programmers who write code for the most important brands and companies on the planet, and they’re a load of work! For example, to insert the video I want to [...]
At the time when we won our first Pregonero Bronce, around 1991, some 20 years ago, as an agency we took home an invaluable statuette.When we won our first Pregonero de Bronce, around 1991, some 20 years ago, as an agency we [...]
El Pregonero de Bronce is the creative contest with the longest trajectory in Costa Rica. It is the classic of national creativity with 29 editions full of excitement and competition, as well as a thousand stories, anecdotes, triumphs and defeats. In the [...]
For decades I have lived in an environment of creativity, innovation and idea generation. Chilling daily challenge, if I can put it in three words. However, nothing is more exciting than finding a new idea, a new way of looking at the [...]
El Tome Chichí from El Verdugo has today in this second commercial one more piece for the Tribu DDB collection. More than commercials, we are focused on creating social phenomena. The Paganini series is the first great fruit of a change of [...]
To the memory of John Lennon and his wonderful legacy.
Sebastián Castro is a young Costa Rican who is taking his first steps at CNN, after graduating from Emory University with a degree in Political Science. He is a great friend of my son Santiago, so we have seen him grow and [...]