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 the last week we were visited by students from Ulatina, Fidelitas, Uveritas, Interamericana and UCR, as well as from Tecnológico de Monterrey in San Luis Potosí. A couple of weeks ago, they had visited us from INCAE, a few days before [...]
David Droga, is the founder and Creative Chairman of Droga5. Growing up in a resort town in Australia, David couldn’t imagine anything better than being a ski instructor traveling the world. Ironically it was his imagination that took him overseas, not his [...]
Web2.0 is about relationships and connecting people. It is people collaborating, exchanging, sharing like never before. Because of this, we have to take up the challenge and rethink copyright, identity, ethical variables, intellectual property, rhetoric, governance issues, privacy, commerce, love, family and [...]
With honesty, providing opportunities, being real: And this is how it is defined: A Lovemark is a brand that has migrated from a place in the market, to the heart of a culture. It is a brand that inspires loyalty, beyond reason. [...]
When I started in this business there was a wonderful planning, ordering and direction tool called the Marketing Plan, in my perspective as an advertising agency, under the full responsibility of the client. It was not a calendar, nor was it a [...]
As a Marketing Manager, Advertiser, member of the Board of Directors of INPUB, whatever the descriptor or title you want to use, I could not agree more with this paper that you have been developing over time. Those of us who live [...]
After spending all last weekend exercising my position as Prosecutor during the selection of the finalist pieces for the 2006 Volcano, which added to a little more than 30 years as an advertiser, producer and Creative Director, I think I am in [...]
In the Volcano 2006 it seems that ideas, creativity and real campaigns will be mixed with ideas, creativity and fake ideas. It would seem that Volcán 2006 will be a contest of ideas strategically designed for our clients, as well as of [...]
“When I toured the exhibition of graphic art at the Ojo de Iberoamérica, what left me most open-mouthed was the high level of graphic-creative work, what most left me open-mouthed was the high graphic-creative level of the other countries in the region”. [...]