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.” […]
To open your eyes and see is a miracle. Getting up in the morning and walking, too. We can take nothing for granted. So much to be thankful for.
Today we celebrate the day of advertisers in Costa Rica, with the country’s advertising agencies becoming the stages of everyone’s creative dreams. On the day of the creative publicists, executive publicists, manager publicists, designer publicists, planners publicists, research publicists, art publicists, producer [...]
Jorge Alvarado, Art Director of Garnier BBDO has brought us a new logo for ASCAP, and with this new design, the successful projection of a more dynamic, up-to-date, fresh and focused association. This new graphic personality was chosen after an internal contest [...]
At the Costa Rican Association of Advertising Agencies, ASCAP, we made the decision to focus on the very essence of our business and therefore, our energies are aligned to detonate the country’s advertising creativity until it becomes world class. The results have [...]
As of Saturday morning, the participations will have a name and surname. This will guarantee a discussion of ideas and proposals, arguments and points of view, among many other factors, of great height, depth and variety. In the context of a place [...]
Reinvent or die. That’s how simple our future is as an advertising industry. But not so simple is the work we must do to avoid continuing to walk in the second option.
“Any person can be great, because any person can serve”, were the words of Martin Luther King, recalled by Obama in a message that was topical, enveloping and a broad invitation to participate in his inauguration. It is clear: Obama will be [...]
After Costa Rica won the 2008 Caribbean as the most creative country of the festival in Panama, many agencies opted not to participate this year in response to last year’s poor organization and awarding of prizes. More than 15 people from Tribu [...]
Today I had to call Carlos Fonseca, General Manager and partner of Publimark, to offer him that if he wishes, he can send me a mupi and I will place it in the bathroom of Tribu, in the cafeteria or in the [...]
Obviously, I have no idea what book or magazine you are reading. However, aside from what it may be, I am absolutely certain that you are currently reading my blog. And yet, I almost guess, this makes me feel guilty, for there [...]
I have nothing to add to what we all already know about the year that started 12 days ago. In Costa Rica it even came with an earthquake, death and destruction, so it entered with force, forcing us to take it seriously. [...]
Wide Awake is a presentation by Erwin McManus and his organization Awaken. His book, Wide Awake, has been on sale since mid-2008. It makes a lot of sense. .
