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 […]
A few days ago I published a post with the campaign of the moment by Dove, called“Sketches“. It has been so well received that it is among the most shared in the world. However, there is another idea from the same brand, [...]
The new advertising creative year has just begun and we are already counting down. So, how about if we all agree and go to 2014 to repeat Lions? In 2008 a Costa Rican agency won the first Cannes Lions, which are something [...]
Every problem is an opportunity. Every limitation is a possibility. Every aspiration can be a realization. Every person can achieve their goals, of course, if you pay the price with discipline, sacrifice, passion and commitment. When I learned about the super humanity [...]
Since last week we have migrated my blog to La Nación, the main media in Costa Rica. Check it out. Periodically we will be uploading the published entries, so that the archive, which to date has more than 1,500 entries, will continue [...]
Nike has done it again, now with a particularly powerful idea: find your greatness. Instead of just applauding sports idols, what if we decided to get moving and start our own? The winning case is on the Cannes Lions site just a [...]
Evian ignites our inner child: While Evian won a Golden Lion at the Cannes Lions last year, I connected a couple of dots and decided to write about the inner child in all of us. Check out the commercial that triggered this [...]
Today we discovered in Tribu, among our Macintosh collection, one of those few Macs that were signed by its creators. They knew it was a work that would go down in history, and as is done with any work of art, Steve [...]
Today I was looking at the list and I couldn’t help but take a close look at the agencies that share the 34th place in the ranking of winning agencies in the Ojo de Iberoamérica: there are 33 agencies with the best [...]
I won’t tell you much, because the pictures say it all. Take a look at Tribu’s Facebook page. If you haven’t done it before, give it a Like, and then don’t miss the photo booth, an idea of Promotica during the week [...]
We are rich; simply because we have more than we need. The central idea of the message, however, is around what to do with this condition of privilege that all of us who are rich have. A few days ago I was [...]
I join the millions of tweets, posts, references, links and everything that adds to one of the most viral campaigns in a long time: Benetton’s Unhate. What envy! And I don’t mean the envy that some people might feel when they kiss [...]
Today has been an unforgettable experience: the Media Planning organized by Advertising Age in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. My commitment to share the Yellow Papers on Social Creativity and Six Degrees remains firm here with links to the PDFs on the DDB site. In [...]