I start typing with an overwhelming sense of defeat. Not because the trip I’m about to describe — at the end of August — went badly, but because it feels almost impossible to put into words what I experienced there. No adjective seems big enough to capture what it truly means to live “Burning Man.” […]
BRAZIL WINS PRESS GRAND PRIX THE 2010 PRESS Lions’ Grand Prix winner is AlmapBBDO São Paulo, Brazil, for the Billboard Magazine campaign ‘Bono’, ‘Eminem’, ‘Amy’, ‘Britney’, ‘Marilyn’. Jury president Mark Tutssel, Leo Burnett Worldwide’s chief creative officer, said: “The Grand Prix winner [...]
One no longer knows if there is a line between creatives and inventors, between iconoclasts and innovators, or between advertising and what today should have a new name. What is certain is that now online meets offline with above the line and [...]
There are days when everything looks dark and depressing, even though everything around you is bright, inspiring and exciting. We often allow feelings to randomly capture us, without discovering the incalculable power in us to choose them. I’ve heard this phrase: “Pain [...]
This week the Cannes Lions festival awarded the founder of Facebook as Media Person of the Year. They fell short: it should have been Media Person of the Century. At only 26 years of age, today he is the founder of a [...]
After Tuesday night, when Cannes held its open-air party on the beach in front of the Carlton, yesterday I woke up with a severe sore throat that warned me of the inevitable: a cold is coming. I spent Wednesday well affected and [...]
Let’s look at it this way. In a year in which we repeated agency of the year in the Volcano, with lava, fire, ashes and fumaroles included, to then sail the Caribbean alone in a speedboat and bring us more statuettes than [...]
The Dutch pair won the gold medal at the Young Lions concluded this morning, with Turkey taking the silver and Germany the bronze. I have only this information for the moment, and so, without accents or accents I send this note to [...]
JWT managed to sneak into the finalists with Nelka Rent a Car in the 4 categories entered, as well as Garnier BBDO in Radio with the Paniamor Foundation. More details on the Cannes website HERE. The options for JWT to win the [...]
Costa Rica’s Young Lions, Humberto Ling and Josafat Padilla, participated with this piece in the young creatives competition in Cannes just a few days after the festival began. In the style of the piece with which they entered the final phase of [...]
When I arrived today in Cannes I found the print competition concluded in its initial stage, as both Josafat Padilla and Humberto Ling, as well as the other 39 creative couples from around the world, competed from Saturday afternoon until Sunday. They [...]
Usually, long-distance training is done on the weekend, because it requires more time, more kilometers and more effort. This commercial, as a good one should be, reflects a truth that is usually hidden: the internal monologue of giving up or continuing, and [...]
