I start typing with an overwhelming feeling of defeat. Not because the trip at the end of August to which I am going to refer went badly, but because I think it is almost impossible to translate into text what I experienced. No adjective is sufficient to describe what it really means to experience “Burning […]
Consumer was born from a sum of stars aligned in the same direction. One of them was Rafael Calderón Mugica, whom I met at the UCR and with whom I became a friend and brother in life. When I returned from Mexico [...]
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 [...]
With only a few days to go until the last day of September, and therefore, with only 11 days left to publish the pieces for Pregoneros and Volcán, rumors have reached us that we will have a heavy participation of Central American [...]
With the water cycle, presented in this beautiful animation, I connected with my years in advertising and that of almost all of us advertisers. It’s a long journey and like all, with obstacles and challenges at every step. One day we win [...]
Today begins at ArteCine Lindora the OPENHOUSE, an option for the ill-mannered like me, as it takes messages from conversational speakers from the United States, and projects them on the movie screen in an activity that does not exceed 60 minutes. Thus, [...]
From Mosaic in Pasadena, Erwin McManus, the lead pastor of one of the most creative churches in the United States, www.mosaic.org, will visit us next week. In his proposal, art, film, dance, music of course, creativity and innovation play a key role [...]
With only three weeks to go before the last date for publications or guidelines for the Pregonero and the Volcán, the season of truchos in our country begins, so it is convenient to read La Teja among other chosen media. These days, [...]
The next Volcán could be one of surprises, as we do not know if its opening to Central America will in fact imply registrations from agencies in the region or if, despite this fundamental change, it will continue to be a predominantly [...]
