I start typing with an overwhelming feeling of defeat. Not because the trip at the end of August to which I am going to refer went badly, but because I think it is almost impossible to translate into text what I experienced. No adjective is sufficient to describe what it really means to experience “Burning […]
I lived creative. Innovative. Exploratory. Bold. Convinced that an idea can change the world, as long as it’s well designed. (And if it’s not THE world, it can clearly do it in YOUR world. Does it make a difference?) Look at this [...]
Don’t miss this VIDEO, the best thing about Costa Rica is its variety. Also, take a look at this other VIDEO, and if you want to spend some more time, this could be another VIDEO to discover. Just weeks away from the [...]
I received an email from Massimo Martinotti, finally announcing the online launch of Vesyves, an experience you have to go and see. Visibly the product of a gigantic effort, of a reckless vision, of a complex and clearly sensitive proposal, Vesyves is [...]
When Armando Vargas found out that I had returned from the country, after 5 years at McCann-Erickson Mexico, he immediately sought me out and hired me as a consultant for twenty-five thousand colones per month, which, as little as it may sound, [...]
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 [...]
