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.

David Sparshotthas spent the last fortnight illustrating those Commended as part of the most recent YCN Awards to be sent in the post with news of next steps. You can see him above polishing off his last one today.

London design studio THIS IS Studio have a brand new site, viewable here. Shown are lots of good things including work produced for last year's YCN event at the Royal College of Art.

We are helping Cravendale promote a brand new creative challenge. As part of Future Milk designers are invited to create new design concepts, graphical or structural, for the Cravendale milk packaging. There are cash prizes and agency placements up for grabs; as well as three very special bottle awards created by Jiggery Pokery, Jamie Brown and Bryony Birkbeck (a making of shot is shown above. There's a dedicated project section here - with full details of how to take part.

... ideally with 2- 3 years experience in a creative studio environment. That being said they'd consider someone exceptional with less than this, and full opening details can be found here.

Many thanks to Laura and Emily who both spent their last working day in the studio on Friday. Johanna Lundberg is the latest member of the team, who begins this week working on an Agency YCN project for Christian Aid.