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 early days of our agency, located in the room of my parents’ house that my brother Carlos vacated, the then Consumer had its first network: a Mac 512 and a Mac SE, my brother’s computer and mine. From one desk [...]
Jorge Galeano’s memory will live forever in our memories, because his role was crucial in the beginning of our company. Que de Dios Goce, Jorge opened the first accounting books, made the first financial statements and came to put order in that [...]
We brought him from McCann-Erickson with a mission, to make him the first digital artfinalist in the country. As a young master of graphic arts, Fernando turned to Mac to learn the new way of making art. He dedicated, on one long [...]
Alvaro Fernández entered our agency with the credentials of Doña Rotunda on his chest, a character created for the National Lottery that made havoc, history and provoked big smiles. With us, he dedicated much of his talent to Cofal, as well as [...]
When I proposed to Marjorie González to move from GM (Gutiérrez Machado), a respectable agency of those years, she accepted for reasons that I still don’t understand, since she decided to join an embryonic company and the one she was joining as [...]
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 [...]
Often the enemy is in ourselves. And indeed, agencies that have decided to pull out or quit are sending a message: deterioration, lack of leadership, lack of direction, fear of losing, that they have nothing to compete with, lack of creative, internal [...]
The Openhouse Project presents in Artecine Lindora: LOSING YOUR RELIGION, by Andy Stanley. Mondays, Feb. 15, 22, March 1, 8. 7:15 PM. Lindora, Costa Rica. And yes. Face it. Religion can get pretty strange pretty quickly. Mystical. Superstitious. Legalistic. Judgmental. Hypocritical. But [...]
All advertising agencies compete in the market, although only a few compete in local, regional or global creative festivals. And although it is not a rule, those that are confirmed as winners through creative competitions are generally more successful. Just as no [...]
Sometime in late 2008, Diego Garcia and I joked at Tribu thinking about the spectacular combination that would be achieved if it were possible to add Tribu to DDB. We entertained the idea for a moment and put it in the basket [...]
We started talking since April and finally today we are officially DDB. As a Christmas present and precisely on vacations, now DDB in Costa Rica will have five letters in front of us: Tribu. Encouraged by this new stage in our lives, [...]
“We’re about celebrating the good, not about denigrating the bad,” said Terry Savage at the last meeting of Cannes representatives in London. At the same time, he returned to the subject of scams to review Cannes’ new policy on this much-debated issue. [...]
