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 we are in Antigua, Guatemala, one of the paradises of the world, a World Heritage Site and rightfully the pride of the people of Guatemala. There is no other place like Antigua in Central America, and it is the setting for [...]
After almost two years since its inception, we can celebrate the complete success of our adventure in digital production and that until today responds to the name of BOSZ, led by MBA José Coto as CEO and Partner of the firm. With [...]
Shortly after entering Methodist College in fifth grade, I don’t remember if it was that year or later, a high school student published his poems. I remember my surprise at his talent, and particularly his extraordinary wit with one in particular, which [...]
In a matter of a few days we will reach over 4,000 people who would have made a click on Facebook that is extremely meaningful to us at Tribu DDB. This is an important segment self-defined by a LIKE that represents a [...]
Tribu DDB is a competitive sailboat sailing the seas of life. It is driven and enjoyed by dozens of crew members who are passionate about their vision, as it is in the direction of our own personal dreams and aspirations. More than [...]
Saturday morning I hung up the lions and we went for a walk. Here are some pictures of the surroundings of Cannes and with them, several additional reasons to go to the Festival. The images speak for themselves of corners and places [...]