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.” […]
The Dutch pair won the gold medal at the Young Lions concluded this morning, with Turkey taking the silver and Germany the bronze. I have only this information for the moment, and so, without accents or accents I send this note to [...]
JWT managed to sneak into the finalists with Nelka Rent a Car in the 4 categories entered, as well as Garnier BBDO in Radio with the Paniamor Foundation. More details on the Cannes website HERE. The options for JWT to win the [...]
Costa Rica’s Young Lions, Humberto Ling and Josafat Padilla, participated with this piece in the young creatives competition in Cannes just a few days after the festival began. In the style of the piece with which they entered the final phase of [...]
When I arrived today in Cannes I found the print competition concluded in its initial stage, as both Josafat Padilla and Humberto Ling, as well as the other 39 creative couples from around the world, competed from Saturday afternoon until Sunday. They [...]
Usually, long-distance training is done on the weekend, because it requires more time, more kilometers and more effort. This commercial, as a good one should be, reflects a truth that is usually hidden: the internal monologue of giving up or continuing, and [...]
I was delighted to come across a small pride of lions in a corner, as clearly it’s more about the journey than the destination. Precisely one year after Saatchi Saatchi New York won Grand Prix and the coveted Lion for Agency of [...]
Today we arrived in London for the first meeting of Cannes representatives attended by Costa Rica, and on its behalf, Manolo Gavilán from Ogilvy and myself. I guess because the festival’s headquarters are located in London, they prefer to convene their representatives [...]
The Osa is home to 2.5% of the planet’s biodiversity, our land is in everyone’s blood and now we wear Osa on our skin. A few days before presenting the second collection of tattoos, we are pleased to present a simple video [...]
All over the world, agencies that come to play hard at the Cannes Festival prepare their pieces well in advance. In fact, at this moment they are already producing the ideas chosen in the last weeks, in order to have all their [...]
Tony Granger and his team in New York launched a new marvel of a commercial. It’s a story aimed at women and their magic, in a production with a lot of dollars involved. It’s refreshing to see a retail giant like JC [...]
If you are already jogging or running 8 or 10 Kms, you are in time to prepare, for example, for the Miami Half Marathon, January 27, 2008. From Tribu we will be training Quincho Brenes, Gabo Alfaro, Giovanni Sanchez and myself, so [...]
