2025 has been a year of contrasts—intense, emotional, transformative. It began with a heartfelt farewell and ends with my soul wide open after the magical, peaceful family moments we usually share in Escondida. . In between, there was laughter under a sky full of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Maurice; a spiritual retreat […]
When I review the one thousand three hundred and so many entries I have posted on this blog for several years, I realize that I have not written more than I have left any opinion here. Deliberately, without plan and without malice [...]
In 3 weeks from today I will run a marathon again, although this one has two particular characteristics: it will be the last one and the setting is New York, in the company of about 40,000 others who, like me, have been [...]
While the award ceremony had not yet begun, everything was going great for Tribu. It started and then it all went downhill, with a mention we won while Publimark was on the screen, and so on until the end, all wrong! 😉 [...]
At the time when we won our first Pregonero Bronce, around 1991, some 20 years ago, as an agency we took home an invaluable statuette.When we won our first Pregonero de Bronce, around 1991, some 20 years ago, as an agency we [...]
El Pregonero de Bronce is the creative contest with the longest trajectory in Costa Rica. It is the classic of national creativity with 29 editions full of excitement and competition, as well as a thousand stories, anecdotes, triumphs and defeats. In the [...]
For decades I have lived in an environment of creativity, innovation and idea generation. Chilling daily challenge, if I can put it in three words. However, nothing is more exciting than finding a new idea, a new way of looking at the [...]
With the recently published cases of Imperial Silver and the Harricks Eater, reported in Christian Cambronero’s excellent blog, Fusil de Chispas, some pepper returns to our Costa Rican advertising micro patio, especially seasoned by the naivety of many comments from those who [...]
Today I received an email from a blog reader who did me the favor of directing me to the Modernista site, as he thought it was an excellent idea for this site, in combination with those of Tribu and its affiliates. Thank [...]
This is a sense of timing, and understanding that if we are going to say something out there, we better do it by adding a direct, effective, inspiring and refreshing contribution. This is what Itziar Elizalde adds in expansion.com: Coca-Cola Spain has [...]
Here is a direct copy paste of a video and text I found on YouTube that is worth the 4 minutes and a bit it lasts. New Realism Economic conditions will profoundly affect our cultural context moving forward. As our creative content [...]
Del Campo Nazca Saatchi Saatchi has a bold and brave proposal to compete with the gigantic production budgets that come to Cannes in the beer category. I’m excited about this campaign and believe it will do very well at the big festival [...]
It was just in line, it competes and lines up as a very good performance option for Saatchi NY at Cannes. We’ll see, what do you think?