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 […]
El Ojo de Iberoamérica is the most important non Anglo-Saxon festival in the world, with more than 5,500 creative pieces competing in 2011 and with a relevance recognized worldwide. Today Tribu DDB has 14 finalists, just a few hours before the final [...]
In LatinSpots the headline of last November 3 reads: “Tribu DDB consecrated in Pregonero de Bronce”. Last October 13, the headline in Adlatina reads “El Taier Tribu DDB and Brahva won the Great Effie in Guatemala”. On June 23, La Nación headlined [...]
This is the news from Buenos Aires, confirming the great moment Tribu DDB is experiencing. (02/11/11). The Graphic Production category, with José María Roca de Viñals – Creative VP of DDB Spain – as President of the Jury, presented an SL made [...]
In Costa Rica we opened the association of advertising agencies to all commercial communication companies, we changed the original guild model and we have launched a new name. The transformation of ASCAP, more than 50 years old, has responded with success to [...]
We take Halloween and turn it into a tradition. The costume party starts in the morning and goes into the evening. We enjoy the day and thus confirm Zanders rule #6: we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Tribu DDB and Bosz Digital [...]
“If I have seen further, it was because I did it on the shoulders of giants” said Newton when he spoke about teamwork. At another point in history, Edison said that “A genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”. Ray Kroc, 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 [...]
