We were invited by the team at Grafik magazine to help create visuals for their stand at this year's New Designers event. We have taken a collaborative approach, with illustrators working at the stand between now and Sunday. Images will be added here shortly.

There is an immediate placement opportunity for a keen and talented design graduate within the Leahy Brand Design studio (with a view to a three month internship) in Clerkenwell, London. Full information, and details of how to apply, can be found here.

We made 50 films in the studio last week, as part of our involvement in the Becks Fusions project. From today anyone anywhere can film themselves creating a piece of work (in response to this song) and upload it for consideration by a panel that includes John Squire, Peter Saville and Francesca Gavin. Full details can be found here.

Based in Montreal, Julien Vallée produces stunning graphic and moving image work. We recently worked with Julien on a project for London studio DixonBaxi - and hope to be able to commission him for a coming YCN project very shortly. See his work here.

Many thanks to Christian from KesselsKramer for his excellent guest blog this week. Parisian design studio Peter & Wendy will be our daily guests from Monday.

As part of some new activity for Becks we are inviting people into our studio to produce a piece of artwork in response to a piece of music. The process will be filmed, and uploaded to a special project website where it will be judged by a creative panel that includes John Squire, Fabienne Nicholas and Peter Saville, before selected artists are invited to take part in the Becks Fusions event in Manchester. Artwork can be created in a medium of your choice - the only condition is that you do it live to the music.

Full details will be shortly added to the Projects section of the site. In the meantime, if you'd like to learn more or come into the studio to produce some work, please contact Johanna at YCN.

KesselsKramer is a 40 strong creative group with an HQ in Amsterdam (and a newly opened outlet in London). KK copywriter Christian Bunyan is the first in a series of week long guest bloggers at YCN - see his daily picks here.

Out today is a new book conceived and designed by James West, and containing fifty designers' current favourite typefaces. A complete list of contributors, including Wim Crouwel, eBoy, Experimental Jetset, Farrow, James Goggin, SEA, Non-Format, NB: Studio, Pentagram can be seen here - The book can be bought online and 100% of the cover price goes to UNICEF's Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Children's Appeal

With Wimbledon 2008 around the corner Jamie Brown and Cristina Guitian were commissioned through Agency YCN to serve up some large format tennis artwork for a temporary Nike pop-up store. Images of the work, created over three days, can be seen at Flickr here.

Friday 20th of June is the deadline for entries as part of Cravendale's Future Milk competition. There are very good cash prizes, and agency placements, up for grabs for those who can best demonstrate the future of milk packaging. Three specially embellished milk bottles will also be awarded, including the bejewelled model above - made special by Anna and Lauren at Jiggery Pokery.

We're looking to commission an image maker who can make fairly intricate objects from cardboard as part of a coming Agency YCN project, on the subject of sustainability. If you think this could be you, please send some examples of work to johanna.

A number of illustrators are drawing a number of staff at the agency Iris this coming Thursday. It's the first in a series of agency visits to promote our Agency YCN work. David Sparshott headed to Iris HQ in SE1 today to take a series of preliminary polaroids - see the film here.

...his portfolio site. Pierre was a contributor to last year's YCN Alphabet, and more recently to work done through Agency YCN for Nike.

Antoine Choussat and Zamir Antonio AKA Eat Sleep Work/Play have a new website up presenting many of their past personal and commissioned projects and viewable here. ESW/P worked with YCN last summer to produce a special installation for our show at the Royal College of Art.

... can be found in the Events section of the site. YCN will have a presence at this year's New Designers event, having been invited by Grafik magazine to contribute visually to their stand. More news on this (and our own Summer event plans) soon.