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 […]
It transformed the lives of millions around the world, including mine since 1985. Thank you Steve. May you rest in peace. Forever grateful.
In Inner Mongolia and next to the Gobi desert, a new architectural marvel has been added to the planet. In a bid in the style of Bilbao with its Guggenheim by Ghery, Beijing commissioned this work to MAD Architects 6 years ago. [...]
Let’s talk about your finances for a moment. Are they in balance or out of balance? Are you paying more to your credit card issuer than you’d like? Do you want to buy a house but don’t know how? Is your first [...]
In our soccer countries, very little is known about rugby. For this reason, I include this video in case you want to know the basics of this spectacular sport. After the New Zealand All Blacks beat Canada last Sunday, the best teams [...]
Stefan Asafti has created an interesting project about brands, which he justifies as follows: “The truth is that every pair of rivals has something in common. It has something that has helped them build their identity, all the way to becoming the [...]
The 10th month of the year is October. In Costa Rica it is a rainy month, although this year through HBO it will arrive with the sun. On the 5th and 6th of this month a documentary on the life of George [...]
Consumer was born from a sum of stars aligned in the same direction. One of them was Rafael Calderón Mugica, whom I met at the UCR and with whom I became a friend and brother in life. When I returned from Mexico [...]
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 [...]
