Hasta La Creative!

We’re still awaiting full credits on this one, but in the meantime, feel free to view Goodby Silverstein & Partners’ latest spot for Doritos, which was helmed by actor/writer/director Jon “You’re So Money” Favreau and features music from Philly-based DJ/producer, Diplo. Maybe it’s just us, but this clip feels like a deleted scene from Superbad–though considering we dig said flick, it’s not too bad altogether. Better this valet than this one, we say.

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Television networks are creating commercials for advertisers, three retailers settled claims that they marketed real fur as faux, and a professor at Columbia’s journalism school says the university misdirected endowment funds.

The U.S. Justice Department won’t ask the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that struck down rules requiring graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging.

Attorney General Eric Holder, in a letter to Congress dated March 15, said the Food and Drug Administration will create new regulations that address the First Amendment concerns raised by the appeals court, which in a 2-1 decision found the requirements violated the free speech rights of tobacco companies.

“If a court of appeals were to set aside new regulations issued by FDA at a later date, there will be an opportunity to seek full Supreme Court review at that time,” Mr. Holder said.

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If your agency has a little extra desk space and would like to give it a higher purpose than storing empty binders, you might be interested in the Free Desk Here project. The international effort, created by the London-based Open Studio Club, provides aspiring creative professionals with free workspace at willing agencies. The squatter creatives do their own work, not agency projects. The goal is to give up-and-coming talent the facilities, tools and camaraderie to create professional-caliber work. Here are the rules:

    Desks are 100 percent free. There's no charge.
    Guests are there to work on their own projects, not the agency's work.
    Agencies can end things at any point.
    WiFi and other facilities like the kitchen, toilet and windows are included.
    The desk is available only during agency hours.
    Guests should not invite anyone into the agency.
    Meeting rooms are off limits to guests.
    Use of stationery, printers, telephones, etc., are not included.
    Guests might be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement.
    Guests shouldn't play their own music.
    Guests should respect the studio culture.
    Guests should not remove anything from the studio.
    Guests might be asked to meet the agency before being offered the desk.
    Guests should be open to share ideas and talk about their work.
    Guests should be actively working on a project and attend the agency daily.
    The free desk is not a short cut to getting a job at the agency.

Interested in offering up space or browsing for a desk to jockey? Check out the Free Desk Here website for details and photos of participating shops.

Sid Lee has appointed Mac Macdonald as the first president of its Amsterdam office.

The Department of Work and Pensions has invited three agencies to pitch for the comms planning for its ongoing £8m pension campaign about automatic enrolment.