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 [...]
The Dutch pair won the gold medal at the Young Lions concluded this morning, with Turkey taking the silver and Germany the bronze. I have only this information for the moment, and so, without accents or accents I send this note to [...]
JWT managed to sneak into the finalists with Nelka Rent a Car in the 4 categories entered, as well as Garnier BBDO in Radio with the Paniamor Foundation. More details on the Cannes website HERE. The options for JWT to win the [...]
Costa Rica’s Young Lions, Humberto Ling and Josafat Padilla, participated with this piece in the young creatives competition in Cannes just a few days after the festival began. In the style of the piece with which they entered the final phase of [...]
When I arrived today in Cannes I found the print competition concluded in its initial stage, as both Josafat Padilla and Humberto Ling, as well as the other 39 creative couples from around the world, competed from Saturday afternoon until Sunday. They [...]
Usually, long-distance training is done on the weekend, because it requires more time, more kilometers and more effort. This commercial, as a good one should be, reflects a truth that is usually hidden: the internal monologue of giving up or continuing, and [...]
I was delighted to come across a small pride of lions in a corner, as clearly it’s more about the journey than the destination. Precisely one year after Saatchi Saatchi New York won Grand Prix and the coveted Lion for Agency of [...]