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 […]
In the month of June, A Fuego Lento reached 261,514 page views.
The largest advertiser in the world, Procter Gamble, decided to bet on creativity in advertising for their brands and became one of the most awarded companies in major advertising festivals. They decided to emotionally connect their brands with the people who prefer [...]
With all the 2008 winners on the CANNES LIONS website, and with all the activities concluded, today is the first day of the advertising year in the world, as the road to Cannes 2009 has begun. In Costa Rica, the recent festival [...]
The Cadbury’s gorilla that has given so much to talk about, even snuck into the Grand Prix de Film at Cannes 2008. Little to add to these wonderful images, as he feels the air and prepares to explode with force on [...]
A while ago I posted this tweet: “A united industry like Ugap and the #festivalantigua reflects that all the players in the market are smart and visionary people”. In other words, Costa Rican advertisers: let’s learn from the Chapines. The great Antigua [...]
For years I had heard that there was a nude beach in Miami, although I always thought it was more of a myth than a reality. I never knew where it was, nor did I have any interest in discovering it, until [...]
When Arne Jacobsen designed the Huevo sofa in 1958, he must have anticipated that he had created a classic that would be admired around the world and for generations. I suppose he must have suspected it too, when in that year and [...]
The greatest contradiction of the document is that it has no advertising, despite the fact that its protagonists gravitate or have gravitated for many years around advertising. Regarding the document, Suárez says that “we don’t care much about the visual, this magazine [...]
I met Carlos Suarez about 5 years ago in Cannes. Editor of Brands magazine in the Dominican Republic, he is an Argentinean with a Venezuelan soul and creative passion as if he were an advertiser. Controversial, provocative and incisive, Carlos came to [...]
In Incae we would say in one word that is the answer to every opinion or solution: it depends! With the theory of relativity explained by Einstein for all other mortals, when you sit with a beautiful girl for two hours, it [...]