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 […]
INFIRMA has acquired a VUTEK, and although it looks like just another large format digital printer, it has a particular condition: it is one of the best in the world today. In fact, it is used to exhibit photography and art in [...]
On Thursday afternoon at Cannes 2006, Maurice Saatchi rescued a concept that would make life easier for all of us if we applied it. His presentation was boring in the extreme, although I enjoyed it from the front row especially attracted by [...]
Ay ay ay, let’s laugh at me… Santo gives us another example of the power of insight when it is taken to an innovative way to discover it with a new lens. Life is how you take it, no matter how you [...]
Today I’m including as an attachment that you can download to your computer, a complete chapter of the book The Lovemarks Effect, which includes the Saatchi Saatchi Forum, for you and for a limited time. It will be on the blog for [...]
Now that we have a Wendy’s in Tribu’s neighborhood, I remembered this commercial from Saatchi NY and the creative team led by Tony Granger, precisely who won the 2007 Cannes Agency of the Year Lion a few months ago. I think you’ll [...]
Painter of Eye-Mo, an idea of Tribu for Glaxo-SmithKline and its product Eye-MO. Creative: Mario Calvo, what a great memory, and to you, Marito, a hug and the honor you deserve for a first-world, innovative and daring idea. This is creativity in [...]
Anybody can make an ad. A brand doesn’t. In Costa Rica, as in the world, there are many people making ads. And of course, people hiring them. Many are those who assume that their brands or products need to advertise to sell, [...]
It’s been a few weeks since Rafael Abreu sent me the link to TED. Today, I am hooked to his TedTalks through iTunes, since all the presentations are available for free on his Podcasts. You can download them to your iPod or [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks, from his presentation at TedTalks in Monterey, California, about creativity and the challenge of changing education to value creativity as much as literacy. He identifies the importance of preparing ourselves to be wrong, if we want to be [...]
Photographer Phil Borges estimates that of the 6,000 languages spoken on the planet today, 3,000 are not known by children. In other words, as those who know them die, humanity will lose all the wealth that comes from the legacy of that [...]
USE THE POWER OF TRUST. Forget completely the idea that it is your turn to approve or reject, that this position is a big mistake. If you are going to value ideas, you have to be clear that all have potential, all [...]
