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 […]
With more than 40,000 entries competing from every creative corner of the globe, the upcoming Cannes Lions festival will be the biggest, most competitive, most attended and most intense in its more than 60-year history. The competition and global gathering that takes [...]
There is Always Competition “I would like to be a whale shark,” exclaimed that wonderful little boy when I asked him to tell me which animal he would have liked to be. Tenderly moved by such a singular response, it didn’t take [...]
Young creatives from all over the country will be competing for a place at the next Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Organized by Comunidad and sponsored by the agencies Publimark, jotabeqú, Garnier BBDO and Tribu DDB, FCB/Crea and Darwin, the national [...]
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has opened an abbreviated festival-within-a-festival program. In a bold step forward, the organization has inserted a festival within the festival, a separate awards ceremony and a specific emphasis on innovation. Data, technology and ideas will [...]
Innovate or Die The conventional view of business holds an arguable principle: “grow or perish.” Due to the usual transactional, incremental, and certainly linear attention within companies, it would seem to be true and sufficient, because we assume things either go up [...]
We have received the welcome news that Ferrán Adrià will be in Costa Rica to detonate innovation and share his secrets in the kitchen. With 1,846 dishes invented during 25 years in the kitchen of elBulli, his legendary restaurant ranked as the [...]
It’s just one detail and it makes all the difference. The meeting tent is a marvel, but even more so is how much we enjoy making things happen at Tribu. Check out a sample of emails, in this case with Viviana Araya [...]
When Paula Guevara and Carlos Jimenez were the first Ticos in the Young Lions Competition, in June 2007, I participated as well. Here is the picture to prove it. Yes, the chicken is me, and what fun we had, because they needed [...]
On Monday, June 22, 2009, in “A Fuego Lento” we published a spectacular news, because Maia Livov and Jennifer Caldwell had won a very important Silver medal, participating in Cannes Young Lions Competition. Since we achieved the representation of Cannes for the [...]
I lived ten years of my life as a publicist at McCann-Erickson, one of which was in San Pedro Sula and almost five in Mexico City. Then I returned to Costa Rica and founded Consumer, the name Tribu had for its first [...]
If you are 28 years old or younger for next June, you are a creative, designer, planner or digital designer, and you are fluent in English, you have an opportunity you can’t miss. For everyone in Costa Rica, the Community and La [...]
Today I came across a fun Facebook post from our agency in Guatemala, the taier / Tribu DDB that has to be shared. And it goes like this: Anthropologists have recorded several tribes in which shamans happened to become a sort of [...]
