. Some nights enter our lives quietly and then stay with us forever—unexpected, unforgettable, and impossible not to smile about when we remember them. In my previous post, I wrote about the launch of The Art of Detachment in Madrid a couple of weeks ago—a magical evening surrounded by extraordinary people, where I had the […]
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 [...]
When it comes to musical talent, Costa Rica is an exciting scene of revelations. Its geography of just a few square kilometers, just a little over 51,000 square kilometers of land, bears no relation whatsoever to the quality and quantity of music [...]
The message in the colored spheres. In the registration of his candidacy for the National Liberation Party, Johnny Araya discreetly presented a message of inclusion, openness and renewal through a multicolored sphere, as a symbol of his determination to make a difference [...]
Tribu DDB is about to reach 17,000 fans, likes, adherents or whatever you want to call them. This figure seems high to me and the references in advertising agencies are all just a few clicks away. Whatever it implies or means, it [...]
While in Costa Rica it is noon, over there it is eight o’clock at night and that is the only thing that differentiates us because with 3 examples you will see that Cannes is not far away and it is possible. The [...]
With the dramatic performance and urgency of a sports narrator, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses a new presentation tool, Gapminder, to dispel myths in the development of humanity. It is a sensational talk of scope and depth relevant to understanding the world [...]
Article published in Mercados Tendencias magazine. A Lovemark is a brand that has moved from a place in the market, to the heart of a culture. Good morning, iPod. It is a brand that has understood that the consumer not only wants [...]
His 1905 work, “Garcon a la pipe”, sold for $104.2 million, a record price to date for one of his works, a significant appreciation of the record price paid in 1987 for “Nu rose”, for $7.6 million. It is also the highest [...]