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 […]
As the years go by, in 2012 it is estimated that 50% of sales will be in digital media. Is it possible? For many people like me, we like to buy more and more online. In fact, Aaron Shapiro argues that no [...]
Virtual currency is basically a digital medium of exchange. With a business dimension that already reaches half a trillion dollars in the world, we are facing a concept as difficult to understand today as the credit card was 40 years ago. Reynolds, [...]
Attention! The giant Google is today also a creative agency, working live with clients fascinated to see the innovation it proposes. It has reimagined advertising with its Project Re-Brief? Or is it the same chicken and rice with a different recipe? In [...]
Emily Pilloton presented in the EF Hall at the Austin Convention Center during SXSW and drew us in because of the name of her talk, because she was a TED talker and because she brought ideas worth adding to the moleskin and [...]
I came across this talk and the room was half empty. Then I understood, for at a conference like SXSW on technology and innovation, the topic seemed to be completely out of our interest. And indeed, this turned out to be a [...]
Napoletano uses fucking like commas, she’s strong, has an impactful personality and says she doesn’t mind losing business, if she loses it because of who she is. I’m 10 feet away from her as she speaks at SXSW and I can’t tell [...]
We are attracted to the motivations provoked by this commercial, designed for an aggressive retail client who understands that emotional connections must be powerful between their brand and their consumers. Payless is present in 9 countries in Latin America, and although it [...]
I have little to say for a Volcano like the one we have just experienced, however, I think it is very necessary to review some things, and for this reason, I would like to share some of my observations. 1. The constitution [...]
Last night we had one more Volcano , and as usual, there were the euphoric, the indifferent and the frustrated, there were the skeptics and the challenged, those who only thought about next year, those who hoped it would be this year, [...]
This is how Lilly González, ASCAP’s Executive Director, reports the list of winners in the 2006 Volcán. Cheers! WINNERS VOLCÁN 2006 CREATIVE ADVERTISING FESTIVAL COSTA RICAN ASSOCIATION OF ADVERTISING AGENCIES (ASCAP) AUDIOVISUAL TECHNICAL CATEGORIES 1. DIRECTION: TROPICAL DRINK VERSION: MASTER PRODUCTION COMPANY: [...]
