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.” […]
Originally published in February 2007, this article and its paragraphs are still fully valid, because in competition, individual ambition serves the common good, as Adam Smith put it. In other words, he meant that the best results come from everyone in a [...]
A few months ago I listened to Marcus Buckingham for an hour and a half, with a powerful message: focus on your strengths (or as some call it, the strengths revolution). In this direction, ask yourself a simple question: Are you going [...]
“I’m addicted to collecting steps before dawn. To seeing places I never knew existed. Running to the moon and back. Being a rabbit to the neighborhood dogs. Obey the voice in my head. To let the music take me when I can’t [...]
Me too. We all want to be recognized. I am no exception. Neither are you. And for this reason, perhaps, I’m already thinking of turning up the volume on everything in me. Today, because it’s a Wednesday like any other, instead of [...]
To Fabio Fernandes and all his team at f Nazca Saatchi Saatchi, congratulations for this magnificent idea, surprising production that “seems low cost”, daring musicalization and confidence in a powerful proposal. Undoubtedly, this TV Grand Prix at the Wave Festival in Rio [...]
“Cannes is a quest for the world’s best creativity”. Craig Davis, Chief Creative Officer, Worldwide, JWT” The industry’s leading figures will gather in Cannes this June to discuss the hottest topics occupying the minds of creative professionals around the globe.
Of the ideas that have impressed me the most these days, this new Gold Lion for TBWA South Africa is one of those that remind us that it’s not a matter of budgets, production or unnecessary extremes when the idea itself is [...]
Would you blame yourself, is a perfect question for the headline of the print ad with which Maia and Jeniffer won Silver at the Young Lions press event in Cannes. Maturity and talent combined for our girls representatives in the Young Lions [...]
Don’t miss this campaign by JWT Argentina. I didn’t know it and like everyone at Debussy, I applauded it loudly for its fantastic creativity, fresh, happy and especially brave, because it’s not easy to guess how they managed to sell this idea [...]
With 40% fewer delegates this year, as well as 20% fewer entries, the world’s most important advertising festival did not emerge unscathed from the current global crisis. There is a different atmosphere and in general, I could say, more awareness, more contact [...]
With Gold, Silver and Bronze for DDB in the first two and JWT in the third, Costa Rica accumulated a total of seven Lions in just one year between the 2008 and 2009 Cannes festivals. During the conversations of the last hours [...]
With no confirmation of any kind, “Let’s Recover Peace” sounds strong for Gold at Cannes, so we are extremely excited to see another creative team on the main stage of the creative advertising world picking up a Gold Lion. If last year [...]
