. Some nights enter our lives quietly and then stay with us forever—unexpected, unforgettable, and impossible not to smile about when we remember them. In my previous post, I wrote about the launch of The Art of Detachment in Madrid a couple of weeks ago—a magical evening surrounded by extraordinary people, where I had the […]
With 9 for Tribu DDB Costa Rica and 4 for Guatemala, our Central American network celebrated a great night at the Antigua Festival. With the addition of Gold and Grand Jade for DDB Colombia, the big winner was DDB Latina. On a [...]
A while ago I posted this tweet: “A united industry like Ugap and the #festivalantigua reflects that all the players in the market are smart and visionary people”. In other words, Costa Rican advertisers: let’s learn from the Chapines. The great Antigua [...]
For years I had heard that there was a nude beach in Miami, although I always thought it was more of a myth than a reality. I never knew where it was, nor did I have any interest in discovering it, until [...]
When Arne Jacobsen designed the Huevo sofa in 1958, he must have anticipated that he had created a classic that would be admired around the world and for generations. I suppose he must have suspected it too, when in that year and [...]
The greatest contradiction of the document is that it has no advertising, despite the fact that its protagonists gravitate or have gravitated for many years around advertising. Regarding the document, Suárez says that “we don’t care much about the visual, this magazine [...]
I met Carlos Suarez about 5 years ago in Cannes. Editor of Brands magazine in the Dominican Republic, he is an Argentinean with a Venezuelan soul and creative passion as if he were an advertiser. Controversial, provocative and incisive, Carlos came to [...]
Tony Granger and his team in New York launched a new marvel of a commercial. It’s a story aimed at women and their magic, in a production with a lot of dollars involved. It’s refreshing to see a retail giant like JC [...]
If you are already jogging or running 8 or 10 Kms, you are in time to prepare, for example, for the Miami Half Marathon, January 27, 2008. From Tribu we will be training Quincho Brenes, Gabo Alfaro, Giovanni Sanchez and myself, so [...]
Richard Branson is a living legend and an extraordinary entrepreneur who has amazed the world for years. In this interview with Chris Andersen in Monterey, California, he tells us about his Virgin empire, his successful brands, some of his ideas regarding space, [...]
It is not at all comfortable to talk about our addictions. It is a subject we avoid so as not to confront our deep weaknesses, with complex roots and entangled in our powerful self-defense systems. Those addicted to drugs or alcohol are [...]
Last night’s Pregonero de Bronce was a 2-2-1 that deserves an analysis that I do not intend to make. However, it is worth saying that I have suspected something for some days, and now, I have no doubt. Soccer has molded us [...]
A while ago I received an email with these two commercials of Central American brands with an identical theme, without comments or accusations of any kind, which seemed right to me. However, I think it is important to emphasize that creative coincidences [...]