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 [...]
I am very happy to receive the news of silver medals for Garnier BBDO and JWT Costa Rica at the Fiap, which brings the total to three statuettes for Costa Rica, adding the Bronze confirmed yesterday for Tribu in radio. That said, [...]
Graphic designers, associate creative directors, account directors, account executives, we are looking for more people to join Tribu. Some of the new members of Tribu will be the 100th in this company that grows and advances hand in hand with trust in [...]
Today the first prizes at FIAP 2008 were announced, and we were delighted to receive a Bronze award for the Piolin version in Radio for Protecto, from our client Grupo Kativo. To all the team at Tribu, cheers! These are the credits [...]
The way some business people use their time has nothing to do with a watch. Maybe because “business as usual” isn’t what it used to be. And maybe because the best way to use that time is simply outside of business. And [...]
I identify with the idea proposed by Jim Eldredge in Wild at Heart, who argues that both God has a wild heart and we are created in his likeness. He bases his proposal on the spectacular reflection we can take of his [...]