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 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 [...]
El Tome Chichí from El Verdugo has today in this second commercial one more piece for the Tribu DDB collection. More than commercials, we are focused on creating social phenomena. The Paganini series is the first great fruit of a change of [...]
To the memory of John Lennon and his wonderful legacy.
Sebastián Castro is a young Costa Rican who is taking his first steps at CNN, after graduating from Emory University with a degree in Political Science. He is a great friend of my son Santiago, so we have seen him grow and [...]
What is the Openhouse Project? Watch the idea in this video. It is only 2 and a half minutes long. Creative Projects Would you like more information or are just somewhat curious? Take a further look at The Openhouse Project. A movement [...]
It has been confirmed once again how the Costa Rican Volcanoes are growing, when the country’s main advertising agency reaches a record number of pieces and collections, which anticipates a new and successful award event for commercial creativity. At the close of [...]
There are ideas that become a giant advertising classic the first time they are aired, as it happened with this Bavaria commercial the night it was aired on Channel 7’s Dancing for a Dream. If you haven’t seen it, it’s time to [...]
No one has won more lions at Cannes than David Droga, now Creative Chairman of DROGA5, his new independent project, who without any major complication achieved a new color in his collection of lions, titanium. The video shows us how those who [...]
There is a dimension that we all have to resolve, as much as the physical, intellectual and sentimental. This dimension of our being is often subordinated and even ignored, but it is clearly as important as the most important and it is [...]
Back to basics. With the YES confirmed at the polls, it is a good time to renew our personal commitments to growth and improvement. Back to basics and back to basics: moving from presence to significance, with God as the guide in [...]