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 […]
Today has been an unforgettable experience: the Media Planning organized by Advertising Age in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. My commitment to share the Yellow Papers on Social Creativity and Six Degrees remains firm here with links to the PDFs on the DDB site. In [...]
Last night we closed our year of festivals with 3 Effies, one gold and two silver, all by Tribu DDB for our client Grupo Monge. Here’s how they look with some of the other awards won this year. The Iberoamerican Eye Gold, [...]
On Tribu DDB’s website today, we found a photo worth remembering. There is not much to add to the expressions that perfectly reflect what happens in an organization that is making its mark. We are missing a lot of people in the [...]
Emma Wilkie, General Manager of the Gunn Report kicked off at 9:00 AM on the third day at the Ojo. A few hours away from the Effie in Costa Rica, it is interesting to start with a presentation that sustains the undeniable: [...]
To listen to the most awarded creative of the last 15 years in Argentina, I sat in the front row of the Ojo de Iberoamérica to take notes. If Pablo talks, I listen. I am his fan and over the years we [...]
A few days ago we received the great news, and yesterday it was confirmed on the Community site. As an exception for two emerging countries, and as a result of our efforts, the country will have a jury in Graphics at the [...]
A few years ago, when I first wrote this piece in the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, Apple had just broken ground in an innovative way that had nothing to do with technology, a new device or a new machine. Rather, they’d [...]
It was March 2008 when I programmed the rental car’s GPS to find the closest gas station. I was in Paris and had to fill the tank in order to avoid the steep cost of gas at the rental agency. Since I [...]
When I typed this question into Google, a whopping 241 million results came up. “Holy shit!” I thought to myself. Then, I tweaked my query slightly, swapping the word “world” for “life” and two million more search results were generated. Safe to [...]
My blogging debut was back in 2005 when I first wrote a few lines here, on the Slow Burn blog, named A Fuego Lento in Spanish. Since then, it has certainly lived up to its name; I’ve gone through periods of writing [...]
The Value in Respecting Differences The month of February that is ending has been a personally inspiring experience. On the first of the month, my wife and I took flights from Juan Santamaría airport to Delhi, India. From there, we went on [...]
He began the day’s Keynote by reiterating that we can all transform the world, recalling that a child in Africa with a smartphone today has more information in his hands than the President of the United States 15 years ago. Moore’s Law [...]