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 […]
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.
Today I sat down to read Fusil de Chispas and all the comments posted on Christian Cambronero’s famous blog in reference to Tribu DDB ‘s new campaign for our client El Verdugo, produced by Camera, with only a week on air. How [...]
After listening to him on Zeitgeist I wrote him to ask for the link to the video of the first follower. And of course, minutes later he answered me with details, several options and the recommendation to use it, copy it, play [...]
Derek Sivers came to the Zeitgeist to propose that a movement is more about “followership” than leadership, extolling the value of the first follower. The video that illustrates this brief talk, which doesn’t look good, shows a guy who started dancing alone. [...]
So said Ted Turner at the start of Zeitgeist 2010, in an interview that began with Tom Brokaw 1 hour and 2 minutes after the first talks started, while igniting all the batteries in favor of optimism. Here is the full recording [...]
If I had learned to take notes like that… I would have about three doctorates!
Google did a great job with the organization of Zeitgeist 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona, including attentions and surprises that made the delight, as it was said before, even of the most demanding, among which I am not. Of course, I have to [...]