2025 has been a year of contrasts—intense, emotional, transformative. It began with a heartfelt farewell and ends with my soul wide open after the magical, peaceful family moments we usually share in Escondida. In between, there was laughter under a sky full of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Maurice; a spiritual retreat in […]
In ASCAP we have decided to invest again in the creative development of our country’s talent, and for this reason, we have hired the Escuela Superior de Creativos Publicitarios, known for years as La Escuelita. June 25 to 28, at the Uveritas [...]
What we do in life… echoes in eternity. And if so… what are you doing with your life? what with mine? what are we doing with our lives? We didn’t get to be gladiators in a Roman arena. Nor Japanese invading American [...]
Pancho Terán, General Creative Director of TRIBU / Nazca Saatchi Saatchi, (very serious in this photo!) is a member of the jury for the New York Festival, and for this reason, we have seen him focused on his mission, which at the [...]
When Paula Guevara and Carlos Jiménez receive the brief for the Film competition in Cannes, next June 22 at 8 a.m., they will be competing against 19 pairs from around the world for a Golden Lion in the Young Creatives Film Competition. [...]
Today we barely arrived in Rome and in the cab to the hotel we passed in front of the Roman Colosseum, which was the backdrop for three monumental sculptures by our compatriot and friend, Jorge Jimenez Deredia. What a pride for Costa [...]
As I write these words, José María Figueres is in Madrid on a topic of interest to all of us, because there is no doubt that the network innovates every day and its course is close to that of our lives. I [...]
On some rare occasions I refer to the trips I make for business or personal reasons, however, as I take flight this Thursday I am ready to share the experiences of the next few days in the open sky, both here in [...]
Just a simple preview: in 2010 the first Effie will be held in the country, represented and organized by ASCAP. We do not have definite dates yet, but we anticipate that it will be in the third quarter of the year. So [...]
The word is out and I confirm it: the Volcano is moving to February. The Board of Directors of Ascap, the Costa Rican Association of Advertising Agencies, decided in the last session to migrate the Volcano to the beautiful days of February [...]
And it is now on YouTube, complete and free for everyone. Yann Arthus-Bertrand has done it again and now in a dimension typical of his global style and his content sensitive to the world we live in. Don’t miss the one hour [...]