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 […]
After spending all last weekend exercising my position as Prosecutor during the selection of the finalist pieces for the 2006 Volcano, which added to a little more than 30 years as an advertiser, producer and Creative Director, I think I am in [...]
In the Volcano 2006 it seems that ideas, creativity and real campaigns will be mixed with ideas, creativity and fake ideas. It would seem that Volcán 2006 will be a contest of ideas strategically designed for our clients, as well as of [...]
“When I toured the exhibition of graphic art at the Ojo de Iberoamérica, what left me most open-mouthed was the high level of graphic-creative work, what most left me open-mouthed was the high graphic-creative level of the other countries in the region”. [...]
Often the enemy is in ourselves. And indeed, agencies that have decided to pull out or quit are sending a message: deterioration, lack of leadership, lack of direction, fear of losing, that they have nothing to compete with, lack of creative, internal [...]
The Openhouse Project presents in Artecine Lindora: LOSING YOUR RELIGION, by Andy Stanley. Mondays, Feb. 15, 22, March 1, 8. 7:15 PM. Lindora, Costa Rica. And yes. Face it. Religion can get pretty strange pretty quickly. Mystical. Superstitious. Legalistic. Judgmental. Hypocritical. But [...]
All advertising agencies compete in the market, although only a few compete in local, regional or global creative festivals. And although it is not a rule, those that are confirmed as winners through creative competitions are generally more successful. Just as no [...]
Sometime in late 2008, Diego Garcia and I joked at Tribu thinking about the spectacular combination that would be achieved if it were possible to add Tribu to DDB. We entertained the idea for a moment and put it in the basket [...]
We started talking since April and finally today we are officially DDB. As a Christmas present and precisely on vacations, now DDB in Costa Rica will have five letters in front of us: Tribu. Encouraged by this new stage in our lives, [...]
“We’re about celebrating the good, not about denigrating the bad,” said Terry Savage at the last meeting of Cannes representatives in London. At the same time, he returned to the subject of scams to review Cannes’ new policy on this much-debated issue. [...]
