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 […]
Very good idea, will I go in flip-flops, will there be thongs, will the sea be cold?
When I was offered the cover of the first issue of Ego, several years ago, I had no hesitation in refusing the kind offer. The name of the magazine and my unfamiliarity with its new format led me to pass up the [...]
If praying is talking to God, meditating is simply listening to Him. If you want to do it, the Frenchman Erik Satie composed a master key to do it: his Gymnopédies of 1987. To listen to God. Openhouse.
Two years ago at Tribu we edited a magazine. It was called Alma and it was made by all of us at the agency, with the particularly valuable support of Aurelia Dobles, how we enjoyed it! In those days we placed it [...]
Let’s see, you who are so educated or so cultured, what does calamitad mean? Disimolar? Cataputa? Cerdeza or Cuarzo? What does culapso or bacilar refer to? At a gathering of friends and family in Mexico City last night, we enjoyed to tears [...]
A few days ago I was asked several questions about the future of advertising. I suppose that after more than 30 years in it, the journalist had a reasonably good basis for assuming that I would respond with arguments and insight from [...]
Yesterday, the 17 pairs that will compete to represent Costa Rica in the Young Lions Competition in Print, at the next Cannes Festival, were chosen. In a session with creatives from ASCAP agencies, gathered at Garnier BBDO, and with the prosecution as [...]
By Andrés Arias. Yesterday, Tuesday 22nd, we had the visit of Irene Esquivel, Advertising Agencies Manager of Grupo Nación, who came to Tribu for two hours to present to accounts, media, management, creativity and design a wide range of possibilities in creative [...]
Today will be chosen the 25 pairs of advertising creatives who will compete for the national Young Lions, and the grand prize of a trip to Cannes next June with tickets and lodging expenses covered. There they will compete with the other [...]
There is nothing simpler than that, from the depths of your heart, with all your mind in it, you make the decision to go in one direction. However, the complexity that we love to add to everything, even the simplest, betrays us. [...]
With Golds for Publimark Lowe and Ogilvy, Silvers for Garnier BBDO, JWT and DDB, as well as a Bronze for Tribu Saatchi Saatchi, we closed our country’s participation in FIAP in a great way and exceeding expectations. Yesterday I felt a bit [...]