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 […]
“From Why to How to What.” I was going through the resources in Prezi, when I came across a presentation with Simon Sinek and his 2009 Ted Talk. In today’s day and age it’s like from prehistoric times, and yet with ideas [...]
I agree with the person who said he preferred the future. After all, that’s where we’re going to spend the rest of our lives, right? Hmmm. Not so fast as the only instant we live in is the here and now. Definitely [...]
I have a signal from my body that you could help me interpret: it’s getting worse every year! That is, either the viruses are getting more and more powerful (like influenza), or I am not getting any younger. There could be a [...]
Steve Jobs defined design first in relation to operation and not appearance, so it is not difficult to understand his successes for so many years. Form and substance must tell their genesis from the very same creative moment. Einstein said it and [...]
From the book by Armando Vargas Araya, La Vía Costarricense, published by EUNED in 2005, this is a wonderfully inspiring text as it initiates a broad, open and participatory process. What is La Via Costarricense? It is a dynamic conceptual tool to [...]
Thinking about the Costa Rican Way, a few days ago I wrote a message to my great friend, Armando Vargas Araya, journalist, historian, politician and wonderful human being. In a few words, these were my two lines: Armando dear, whose idea was [...]
The greatest contradiction of the document is that it has no advertising, despite the fact that its protagonists gravitate or have gravitated for many years around advertising. Regarding the document, Suárez says that “we don’t care much about the visual, this magazine [...]
I met Carlos Suarez about 5 years ago in Cannes. Editor of Brands magazine in the Dominican Republic, he is an Argentinean with a Venezuelan soul and creative passion as if he were an advertiser. Controversial, provocative and incisive, Carlos came to [...]
In Incae we would say in one word that is the answer to every opinion or solution: it depends! With the theory of relativity explained by Einstein for all other mortals, when you sit with a beautiful girl for two hours, it [...]
FILM, FILM CRAFT AND TITANIUM AND INTEGRATED LIONS WINNERS ANNOUNCED UK WINS FIRST FILM CRAFT GRAND PRIX USA WINS FILM GRAND PRIX, INTEGRATED GRAND PRIX AND TITANIUM GRAND PRIX Cannes, 27 June 2010 – Yesterday, the final night of the Cannes Lions [...]
In a few hours the Film, Film Craft, Effectiveness, Integrated and Titanium awards will be over, as well as the awards for Production Company of the Year, Client of the Year, Network and Agency of the Year, both network and independent. And [...]
At the celebration of 100 years of his birth, David Ogilvy was remembered as saying that advertising is a force for good. He assured that it was about much more than sales and proposed to make a better world with it. In [...]
