. Some nights enter our lives quietly and then stay with us forever—unexpected, unforgettable, and impossible not to smile about when we remember them. In my previous post, I wrote about the launch of The Art of Detachment in Madrid a couple of weeks ago—a magical evening surrounded by extraordinary people, where I had the […]
The next International Festival of Creativity Cannes Lions 2014 has marked the next year and has summoned us for June 15. In our country some will accept the invitation and others will choose to ignore it. Which group will you be part [...]
Running a marathon is an unforgettable experience, it is an integral challenge, it is an exciting achievement and it is a personal best. The marathon is a distance of 42.2 kilometers and tests discipline, perseverance, the product of gradualness, will and constancy. [...]
One fine day in prehistoric times, my mother came up with the wonderful idea of moving me to a bilingual school. Gud morning. While that maternal inspiration was crucial in my life, it happily also led to an early and brief encounter [...]
In attention and appreciation to the courtesy of the response published in the Costa Rica Esencial website, I allow myself to copy/paste it and leave it here for the consideration of the readers of“A fuego lento“. I have allowed myself to add [...]
The remarkable and competent government authorities have reported that the new country brand, Esencial Costa Rica, was achieved with a process that began in 2008 and whose cost amounted to $650,000 dollars. Therefore, the first thing I must say is that by [...]
The creative advertising world applauded “ The Most Popular Song” at Cannes 2012, awarding it Lions and a Grand Prix. Because a simple idea can be powerful enough to influence a country, make a difference and contribute to making it a better [...]
When I review the one thousand three hundred and so many entries I have posted on this blog for several years, I realize that I have not written more than I have left any opinion here. Deliberately, without plan and without malice [...]
In 3 weeks from today I will run a marathon again, although this one has two particular characteristics: it will be the last one and the setting is New York, in the company of about 40,000 others who, like me, have been [...]
While the award ceremony had not yet begun, everything was going great for Tribu. It started and then it all went downhill, with a mention we won while Publimark was on the screen, and so on until the end, all wrong! 😉 [...]
At the time when we won our first Pregonero Bronce, around 1991, some 20 years ago, as an agency we took home an invaluable statuette.When we won our first Pregonero de Bronce, around 1991, some 20 years ago, as an agency we [...]
El Pregonero de Bronce is the creative contest with the longest trajectory in Costa Rica. It is the classic of national creativity with 29 editions full of excitement and competition, as well as a thousand stories, anecdotes, triumphs and defeats. In the [...]
For decades I have lived in an environment of creativity, innovation and idea generation. Chilling daily challenge, if I can put it in three words. However, nothing is more exciting than finding a new idea, a new way of looking at the [...]
