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 […]
It was fun to see a new launch at the Apple store in SoHo. Once again the lines were early, and the enthusiasm for the new iPad was not long in coming. Here’s a short video shot on iPod Nano and edited [...]
December 14, 2009 COLOMBIA | PRESIDENT OF THE WEEK Arnau: “There is always something pending; in our case, to bring a Cannes Lion next year”. Recently named Creative Agency of the Year at the Nova Festival, which took place last November, DDB [...]
Tribu DDB is agency of the year By: Redacción EN, Thursday, March 25, 2010 At Festival Volcán, the company has been awarded with the Volcán Agency of the Year Award by the Costa Rican Association of Advertising Agencies, recognizing its work. With [...]
Very grateful for the opportunity, the agency of the year in the Volcano, and the most awarded agency in the Caribbean, Tribu DDB, will present in Costa Rica the agency of the year in Cannes, DM9 DDB Brazil, and the most creative [...]
How difficult it is to feel, remember and receive the message of Christ on the cross in these times! My childhood memories give me the impression that it was easier to live Holy Week in its profound meaning of life. In other [...]
TribuDDB is flying! March 22, 2010 | Mr. Blue | Costa Rica, Awards There are no words to describe what this Costa Rican agency is doing, both nationally and internationally, and is that these gentlemen have become over the years in collectors [...]
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 [...]