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.” […]
“Optimizing, the art of finding the best choice among all the options, is a luxury we often can’t afford. Instead, we take the first appropriate solution we find, even if it means deciding where to eat lunch, who to hire or what [...]
Artículo publicado en BusinessWeek: Saatchi Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts toiled to make his firm a force among creative agencies. Now–in today’s splintered advertising universe–he’s scrambling to keep it relevant Kevin Roberts may well be the most successful adman of his generation. Over [...]
On April 5, 2005 I published the first article on this blog. Today, almost 700 articles later, I ask myself: what should I do with the blog? And for this, I would love to have your opinion. Let’s see the options I [...]
A week ago a DDB TV commercial for Automercados won the Grand Volcano, the country’s dean advertising agency won Agency of the Year, a supermarket chain, precisely Automercados, won the Volcano for Advertiser of the Year and the surprise of the night [...]
First I admired and bought his design, and then I discovered the character behind it: Philippe Starck, the most prolific and world famous designer alive today. Then I learned about the hotels he has designed, bought his books and read his ideas. [...]
I have always preferred the sunrise, and in this message of multiple interpretation, I totally agree with the idea of rediscovering energy. This video comes to us from Saatchi Saatchi Paris.
Imagine a church that you want all week long to go to every Sunday. One that children ask to go to and want to return to, because it is the best time of their week, and one that adults look for from [...]
While Pablo Chaves, Diego García, Paula Guevara and Josué Alvarado return from the Ojo de Iberoamérica with the Bronze for Unicef in Radio, Tribu celebrated one more Triboooo, and in this video a nice summary. I missed not being there one more [...]
GDP in countries is possibly the factor that most directly correlates with attendance and registrations at Cannes, according to historical data, as more than price, distance or country size, when economies are affected, participation is directly affected. With a global economy in [...]
I’m not sure we have such a precise definition for trucho, however, I heard an interesting reference today at the reps meeting in Cannes. The first one, regarding scam ad, or I guess, trucho, refers to those ads that were produced without [...]
