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 Mauricio; a spiritual retreat in […]
Technology is the most powerful accelerator in advertising creativity. Brands around the world are proliferating and next June Cannes will have more cases that prove this to be true. The speed of change is only increasing and today it is reckless. Let’s [...]
The future begins today, as a phrase could rightly be described as trite. However, it reflects a powerful truth that I do not recommend ignoring (it can be very expensive!). That’s right, the future will be nothing more or less than the [...]
In the year in which Apple celebrates 30 years of having launched Macintosh to the world, a new Apple commercial has come to fill our spirits with poetry. This time it is with the text of an excerpt from the movie Dead [...]
My maternal grandfather’s name was Clemente Alpírez Garay. I never knew him because he died in 48 when he was the victim of an ambush. He was shot while shouting “viva viva” to Don Pepe on his way back to the house [...]
From last year we found extraordinary examples to persuade you to invest in creativity, production and talent, if you are one of the people in charge of a brand. That brand could be a mass consumer brand, such as Red Bull or [...]
2014 brings us thousands and perhaps millions of blogs, tweets, images, videos and more, with proposals to make 2014 the best year ever. However, nothing will happen in the next 12 months that will surpass the upcoming World Cup in Brazil in [...]
I have no idea who Marciano Durán is, except that he is a runner, he writes and shares with his video a reality that all of us crazy runners live. Until Uruguay, thanks for your message that I now copy and paste [...]
At Jazz Café Escazú at 6:00 PM on Friday, February 11, we have a date with the second Ignite Costa Rica, as part of Global Ignite Week. Quick presentations of 5 minutes, supported by 1 slide changing automatically every 15 seconds. Do [...]
It has been a wonderful experience to revisit the Sistine Chapel, now at a distance from the keyboard, also in an exquisite 360º virtual composition of impeccable quality. The distant visit has been reinvented and the first button is the proof. In [...]
Today I got an email from Alberto Quiros, partner and DGC of jotabequ that says: “Hire an agency that wins awards in Costa Rica and the world”. Obviously I was interested, I clicked and stayed a long time with the new website [...]
WYSIWYG: What you see is what you get. As you see. As it is. No more, no less. That’s the way it is.
A few days ago I came across this beautiful window. Fruit ice creams in delicious flavors and colors, presented with creativity, joy and a lot of determination, provoking a sensory experience from the first glance. Who doesn’t like ice creams? And how [...]
