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 […]
I have many days of being with less free time than I like to have. It has been so little that I have needed to write and share on my blog, a space that I opened years ago and that I have [...]
Six young advertisers will represent the country in Cannes They will participate in a world advertising contest that gathers more than 50 countries. Contest consists of mounting a complete campaign in less than 50 hours Rating: 0 votes Irene Rodríguez S. irodriguez@nacion. [...]
We went down from 56 to 47 entries in Cannes this year, although the number of agencies participating only went from 7 to 6. At the same time, I believe that even though we have fewer pieces participating for Costa Rica, the [...]
Seis Mil Colores by our client Protecto is the case with which we will be participating in Cannes 2010. While in the other festivals we have entered a good number of pieces, in the largest and most important festival in the world [...]
Recently, I tried–really tried–to buy a book for my book club. I went online and ordered The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. Then, a week later, I had a free moment at work, and I thought, Oh, I should order that book club [...]
March 2010 ” Professional Woman ” Professional Woman By: Gina Buendía Vivian Fernández de Torrijos The driving force behind TRIBU DDB Panama For five years she served as First Lady of the Republic involved in the social agenda of the State. She [...]
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 [...]
