All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
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.
Last week almost 80 creatives from the country took advantage of the Escuela Superior de Creativos brought by ASCAP, in a workshop that we assume must have been of great benefit to all. However, the only feedback I have at the moment, [...]
A few years ago, when I first wrote this piece in the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, Apple had just broken ground in an innovative way that had nothing to do with technology, a new device or a new machine. Rather, they’d [...]
It was March 2008 when I programmed the rental car’s GPS to find the closest gas station. I was in Paris and had to fill the tank in order to avoid the steep cost of gas at the rental agency. Since I [...]
When I typed this question into Google, a whopping 241 million results came up. “Holy shit!” I thought to myself. Then, I tweaked my query slightly, swapping the word “world” for “life” and two million more search results were generated. Safe to [...]
My blogging debut was back in 2005 when I first wrote a few lines here, on the Slow Burn blog, named A Fuego Lento in Spanish. Since then, it has certainly lived up to its name; I’ve gone through periods of writing [...]
The Value in Respecting Differences The month of February that is ending has been a personally inspiring experience. On the first of the month, my wife and I took flights from Juan Santamaría airport to Delhi, India. From there, we went on [...]
He began the day’s Keynote by reiterating that we can all transform the world, recalling that a child in Africa with a smartphone today has more information in his hands than the President of the United States 15 years ago. Moore’s Law [...]
