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 […]
There goes life between one thing and another, unraveling its mysteries and riddles to bring us many questions and some answers. With only December 2011 coming to an end, the balance of the year is looking good and positive. It’s Sunday, I [...]
Today we discovered in Tribu, among our Macintosh collection, one of those few Macs that were signed by its creators. They knew it was a work that would go down in history, and as is done with any work of art, Steve [...]
Today I was looking at the list and I couldn’t help but take a close look at the agencies that share the 34th place in the ranking of winning agencies in the Ojo de Iberoamérica: there are 33 agencies with the best [...]
I won’t tell you much, because the pictures say it all. Take a look at Tribu’s Facebook page. If you haven’t done it before, give it a Like, and then don’t miss the photo booth, an idea of Promotica during the week [...]
We are rich; simply because we have more than we need. The central idea of the message, however, is around what to do with this condition of privilege that all of us who are rich have. A few days ago I was [...]
I join the millions of tweets, posts, references, links and everything that adds to one of the most viral campaigns in a long time: Benetton’s Unhate. What envy! And I don’t mean the envy that some people might feel when they kiss [...]
Painter of Eye-Mo, an idea of Tribu for Glaxo-SmithKline and its product Eye-MO. Creative: Mario Calvo, what a great memory, and to you, Marito, a hug and the honor you deserve for a first-world, innovative and daring idea. This is creativity in [...]
Anybody can make an ad. A brand doesn’t. In Costa Rica, as in the world, there are many people making ads. And of course, people hiring them. Many are those who assume that their brands or products need to advertise to sell, [...]
It’s been a few weeks since Rafael Abreu sent me the link to TED. Today, I am hooked to his TedTalks through iTunes, since all the presentations are available for free on his Podcasts. You can download them to your iPod or [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks, from his presentation at TedTalks in Monterey, California, about creativity and the challenge of changing education to value creativity as much as literacy. He identifies the importance of preparing ourselves to be wrong, if we want to be [...]
Photographer Phil Borges estimates that of the 6,000 languages spoken on the planet today, 3,000 are not known by children. In other words, as those who know them die, humanity will lose all the wealth that comes from the legacy of that [...]
USE THE POWER OF TRUST. Forget completely the idea that it is your turn to approve or reject, that this position is a big mistake. If you are going to value ideas, you have to be clear that all have potential, all [...]
