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 […]
From Melbourne, we got the stupid ways to die, in reference to the carelessness with which people usually expose themselves in dangerous places. In this particular case by McCann, in relation to the city’s trains and the accidents they seek to reduce [...]
I am convinced that each one of us can contribute to making the world a better place, even at the risk of sounding cliché. We can do it in our homes, in the community we live in, in the country we live [...]
A few days ago I published a post with the campaign of the moment by Dove, called“Sketches“. It has been so well received that it is among the most shared in the world. However, there is another idea from the same brand, [...]
The new advertising creative year has just begun and we are already counting down. So, how about if we all agree and go to 2014 to repeat Lions? In 2008 a Costa Rican agency won the first Cannes Lions, which are something [...]
Every problem is an opportunity. Every limitation is a possibility. Every aspiration can be a realization. Every person can achieve their goals, of course, if you pay the price with discipline, sacrifice, passion and commitment. When I learned about the super humanity [...]
Since last week we have migrated my blog to La Nación, the main media in Costa Rica. Check it out. Periodically we will be uploading the published entries, so that the archive, which to date has more than 1,500 entries, will continue [...]
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 [...]
Let’s look at it this way. In a year in which we repeated agency of the year in the Volcano, with lava, fire, ashes and fumaroles included, to then sail the Caribbean alone in a speedboat and bring us more statuettes than [...]