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.
Every Monday 7:15 PM. ArteCine Lindora. Free admission. Open invitation. Video Talks in English. Thought and designed for people who don’t like church. BALANCED: June 28, June 5, July 5, 12, 19, 26, and August 2, 2010. Can you be unbalanced financially [...]
BRAZIL WINS PRESS GRAND PRIX THE 2010 PRESS Lions’ Grand Prix winner is AlmapBBDO São Paulo, Brazil, for the Billboard Magazine campaign ‘Bono’, ‘Eminem’, ‘Amy’, ‘Britney’, ‘Marilyn’. Jury president Mark Tutssel, Leo Burnett Worldwide’s chief creative officer, said: “The Grand Prix winner [...]
One no longer knows if there is a line between creatives and inventors, between iconoclasts and innovators, or between advertising and what today should have a new name. What is certain is that now online meets offline with above the line and [...]
There are days when everything looks dark and depressing, even though everything around you is bright, inspiring and exciting. We often allow feelings to randomly capture us, without discovering the incalculable power in us to choose them. I’ve heard this phrase: “Pain [...]
This week the Cannes Lions festival awarded the founder of Facebook as Media Person of the Year. They fell short: it should have been Media Person of the Century. At only 26 years of age, today he is the founder of a [...]
After Tuesday night, when Cannes held its open-air party on the beach in front of the Carlton, yesterday I woke up with a severe sore throat that warned me of the inevitable: a cold is coming. I spent Wednesday well affected and [...]
