Jeremy Leslie (Executive Creative Director of John Brown ), Mark Porter (Creative Director of The Guardian) and Richard Spencer Powell (Creative Director of Monocle) will all be presenting an evening of editorial design related talks at St Brides, off Fleet Street as part of YCN LIVE this Wednesday 3rd September. Places are limited, and details of how to attend can be found here.

Tongiht sees the opening of LOVE Creative's show as part of YCN LIVE. Live drawing and large scale prints will be decorating the walls, so if you'd like to get yourself down there and have a few beers go here for an invite.

London based shop/gallery/studio Concrete Hermit will house a blank vinyl canvas on their front window as part of YCN LIVE. Created by Johanna Lundberg and Elin Svensson, the 'notepad' page canvas will be drawn on by three separate artists - Elin Svensson, Alexandra Tugolukova and Adam Smith over the first weekend of YCN LIVE.

Pics of yesterday's piece are up on the event image page

Tonight sees the opening of 'Nicely Done' as part of YCN LIVE. Julian James and Foe will be showing work at 'The Loggerheads' in Nottingham with stellar musical accompaniment.

Today see the start of artist Tina Bueno's 'Baby Book Adoption'. Tina will visit different places and events with her pram full of baby-books and other stories for adoption over the course of YCN LIVE - see http://www.myspace.com/bespectacledwords for more details

Yesterday Andy Miller undertook a live drawing on the wall of Funnel's studio in Manchester. To take a look at the stop frame check out the vimeo here.

As part of YCN LIVE, WEEKDAY in Stockholm hosted a live portrait event this week. Lousie Bjerkert, Emma Löfström, Helena Svensson and Karin Widmark drew portraits in the store, which will (after a two week exhibition) be sent to the depicted's loved ones. Images on the event page.

A huge thanks to everyone who made it down to our YCN LIVE launch at Village Underground last night. A very successful evening indeed with lots of great commended work being appreciated on the big screens.
More photos very soon...

Anna Garforth's 'Mossenger' project is now LIVE in Stoke Newington for the next two weeks. Physical typography made from moss has been used to capture a friend's poetry and has been beautifully rendered as you can see from the images on her event page

Loïc Boyer of Bureau l'Imprimante has some of his work displayed in his studio for the next two weeks as part of YCN LIVE - have a look at the pics of his show on his own flickr and more details are on his event page.

As part of activity in the Nike pop-up store at Batemans Row in Shoreditch we are inviting designers to take part in a unique visual relay. On the 1st September a first designer/illustrator/artist will visit the space and make a piece of personal work while there. They will then physically pass their finished piece to a next contributor to treat as a starting point for their leg of the collaboration; and so on over the entire month. Details of how to take part can be found here.

Today Andy Miller will be doing some Live artwork at Funnel Creative's studio in Manchester as part of YCN LIVE. Expect balloons, pens and a stop frame up here very shortly...

YCN LIVE has started! Yesterday saw a nice opening sand sculpture on the South Bank and today sees the start of numerous exhibitions worldwide.

Events starting today include Chris Bolton's joint show in Helsinki, Riitta Ikonen @ Applied Works on Hoxton Square in London, A showcase of posters by Rob Loeber at urbn in Berlin - loads more to look at on the YCN LIVE event home page - there's something for everyone for sure.

Wander down London's South Bank today to see some YCN LIVE business made from sand (and there's Hans Lo again).

10AM on Tuesday 26th August is the deadline for bids as part of the YCN LIVE Talent Auction. Six of the best emerging creative practitioners are still open to offers as to what project you have for them and what you can give them in return for working on it. All bids are received privately - and the winners will be revealed on Tuesday, before each of the six is deployed accordingly. To find more and to bid - Click here...