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 […]
“In Costa Rica, advertising agencies have no spelling and have not been buying dictionaries for years”, said Mr. Alberto Cañas in the article published a few days ago, which I am including in PDF format. Given the case cited, I am afraid [...]
Everything remains the same in advertising in our country, or am I wrong? (I want to be wrong!). However, I think we are on our way to a new edition of Volcanoes with a little more than three months to go, the [...]
Yesterday we met Patrick Henry Hughes and his dad. When you meet limitations like that live and in full color, a little me jumps on your shoulder and yells at me: Do you realize? Do you see all you’ve got? Stop whining, [...]
In the Willow Creek auditorium, minutes away from listening to Michael Porter, strategy guru and Harvard professor, we were treated to innovation and talent on several strings and a sensational guy.
Today we are in the outskirts of Chicago, with thousands of people in an extraordinary experience that began only about 3 hours ago. I invite you to follow this experience at this wonderful Willow Creek Christian Church, through an online experience at [...]
Legendary Hernán Ortega, the first advertising creative graduated from a university, recognized, great, successful and with a great trajectory up to that moment, Hernán accepted to join Consumer, which honored me, moved me and gave me great confidence, strength and impulse. With [...]
The beginnings of Consumer were marked by people who, like Eduardo, came and made a big difference. We learned a lot from them, and so we’d love to learn your perspective on Tribu now, having known it in its beginnings, having known [...]
Alita came to Consumer one day for an emergency. We had thrown out several campaigns, we were about two weeks behind in the presentation of the campaign to Banex, and we were out of time. The trash can was full of ideas [...]
My compadre and mega bati ultra super super super super talented Pana, made for Consumer the first designs. In fact, as a freelance, they were for Cofala’s line of antitussives. Ex-partner of McCann, when Consumer started we rented together a loft near [...]
When Kevin came to Tribu last July, if I am not mistaken, it broke a paradigm of many years, because it is assumed that our countries are not big enough, that our agencies are only affiliates, and that the agendas of global [...]
The 10 hottest years in recorded history have occurred in the last 15 years. CO2 levels are estimated to be the highest in at least 650,000 years. From El País, the following summary of the declaration in Paris regarding the climate crisis [...]
