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 […]
My blogging debut was back in 2005 when I first wrote a few lines here, on the Slow Burn blog, named A Fuego Lento in Spanish. Since then, it has certainly lived up to its name; I’ve gone through periods of writing [...]
The Value in Respecting Differences The month of February that is ending has been a personally inspiring experience. On the first of the month, my wife and I took flights from Juan Santamaría airport to Delhi, India. From there, we went on [...]
He began the day’s Keynote by reiterating that we can all transform the world, recalling that a child in Africa with a smartphone today has more information in his hands than the President of the United States 15 years ago. Moore’s Law [...]
Celebrate respect,Celebrating great achievements In your home, your organization, within your company or your team, in your tribe or your club, celebrate everything you want to have repeat itself! With 95 minutes on the clock, Bryan Ruiz made a masterful assist. The [...]
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is as important today for clients as it is for creative, media, PR, digital agencies and more. Whoever has a brand, whoever invests in its image, the perceived value of its product or service, whoever [...]
A Festival of Creativity The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity today is as important for clients as it is for their creative agencies. This is also true for companies in media, public relations, digital and more. It is ideal for those [...]
Six young advertisers will represent the country in Cannes They will participate in a world advertising contest that gathers more than 50 countries. Contest consists of mounting a complete campaign in less than 50 hours Rating: 0 votes Irene Rodríguez S. irodriguez@nacion. [...]
We went down from 56 to 47 entries in Cannes this year, although the number of agencies participating only went from 7 to 6. At the same time, I believe that even though we have fewer pieces participating for Costa Rica, the [...]
Seis Mil Colores by our client Protecto is the case with which we will be participating in Cannes 2010. While in the other festivals we have entered a good number of pieces, in the largest and most important festival in the world [...]
Recently, I tried–really tried–to buy a book for my book club. I went online and ordered The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. Then, a week later, I had a free moment at work, and I thought, Oh, I should order that book club [...]
March 2010 ” Professional Woman ” Professional Woman By: Gina Buendía Vivian Fernández de Torrijos The driving force behind TRIBU DDB Panama For five years she served as First Lady of the Republic involved in the social agenda of the State. She [...]
Although predictions are already coming and going for the upcoming festival, the coincidences continue around the extraordinary work by Tribal DDB for Philips Cinema and its “Parallel Lines” by Ridley Scott Associates. Last year’s Grand Prix winner at Cyber intends to repeat [...]