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 [...]
Today is a Sunday like any other Sunday. We still wake up in the morning, get up to the bathroom, brush our teeth and start the day, however, at a different pace than a weekday, more leisurely, more relaxed and somewhat serene. [...]
Sisomo stands for sight, sound motion. And it has been created by Kevin Roberts, the Global CEO of Saatchi Saatchi, and his team around the world. The idea is simple, and states that in the age of screens, we are obliged to [...]
Since April 2003, we assumed a strategic commitment to the idea of creating and perpetuating Lovemarks, to focus on emotional branding and the sustainability of our clients’ businesses. . We did so after having made sure to feel it in our hearts [...]
A few weeks ago I was touring the Tate Modern, to discover an exhibition that connects with the world like few others: GLOBAL_CITIES. . Be sure to visit it on their website, explore it and discover it. Here is a time-lapse of [...]
In the left column there are often photos that deserve a click, because there are short articles related to these images. Click on them, as I have noticed from the blog statistics, that they go unnoticed by most people. So when you [...]