Copies of Zine A, created by illustrator Jake Blanchard, are now available to purchase at 72 Rivington Street, or online from the YCN shop. You can see more of Jake's work here.

Illustrator Chrissie Abbott paid 72 Rivington Street a visit earlier in the week to tell us about her latest work, an example of which is shown above. You can see more from Chrissie here.

Recent Nottingham Trent graduate, and Commended YCN Awards entrant Matt Ivey, has been spending some time in the YCN studio this week working on the development of ideas he created in response to Arsenal FC's live award brief. YCN are working with the club to develop graphics for their community department's coming 25 year anniversary. More details of the project will be added soon.

Miguel Ornia-Blanco has some great new work including this illustration depicting the recent Glastonbury festival which was featured in Q Magazine. You can see more of Miguel's work here.

The Drawbridge is an independent, quarterly publication. Copies of the latest issue; entitled 'Horror', are now available to purchase downstairs at 72 Rivington Street, or online here.

Weiden + Kennedy London is searching for new talent from across the arts, sciences and technology to work at Platform, its new talent incubator. They will hire, teach and work with a diverse mix of people, from all over the world. The placement is paid, lasts for a minimum of 6 months and starts on 9th September 2009. You can find further details of this opportnity by clicking here, or on the image above.

It was a pleasure to show Tom and Chris from Frame Magazine around 72 Rivington Street recently. Copies of Frame (and its sister title Mark) are now available to browse in the Lending Library.

We're delighted to be working with Portland based duo Rainbow Dropshadow on a moving image showreel as part of some new content additions to the YCN website. A series of live action idents are being created to punctuate a collection of contributions from James Houston, Tom Scholefield and Daniel Britt among others. Shown is a work in progress image; more of which will be very shortly added to flickr.

Martin Usborne has photographed Joseph Markovich, a resident of Hoxton for over 80 years, and published the resultant images in a lovely publication entitled 'I've lived in Hoxton for 81 ½ years' which is now available to view in the Lending Library at 72 Rivington Street. Alternatively, you can see documentation of the full project here, or by visiting Martin's current exhibition at the Hoxton Bar and Grill in Hoxton Square.

A big thanks to Simon Waterfall from Poke for being the first guest to introduce a collection of personally picked publications to the Lending Library at 72 Rivington Street yesterday evening. His selection can be perused daily in the space from 10AM and seen in full online here. Following Simon later this month will be Sir John Hegarty.

Many thanks to everyone who attended the business ideas workshop, hosted at 72 Rivington Street for Hoople this morning. A selected number of enthusiastic entrepreneurs came along to share their business ideas as part of the workshop which was led by founders Rod Fountain and Marvin Aristotle. Hoople is a new resource which will provide young entrepreneurs with access to advice, support and funding when it launches in Spring 2010. The workshop culminated in an evaluative peer review session during which the boys from LOVEBOX delivered the winning pitch.

The Love Mirror, created by Newcastle based designers Deadgood is now available to look in and buy downstairs at 72 Rivington Street. To coincide with its arrival, Deadgood director Dan Ziglam has answered some questions, and shared some likes. Read the feature here, see the mirror here.

Dumbo feather, pass it on is a 'mook' - half mag, half book which is published and edited by founder, Kate Bezar. Many thanks to Kate for the latest issue of the publication which is now available to borrow from the Lending Library at 72 Rivington Street.

Didn't See It Coming, pictured here, is the charming by-product of a collaboration between illustration students from Kingston University and Stockport College. We were lucky enough to meet a number of the students involved in the project when they visited the YCN studio earlier in the year. Many thanks to Ian Murray at Stockport who kindly sent us a copy of the publication which is now available to browse in the Lending Library at 72 Rivington Street.

“In an age of blackberrys, mobiles, and time is money, fishing is an increasingly eccentric sport. We often sit for hours and nothing happens. There really is no point to it. Coarse fisherman don’t even ever eat their catch. However, if you fish, you have the time to think again, to appreciate and savour the moment. Fishing enables you to take stock, gain perspective, remember great books, hum a tune you haven’t thought of in years. It makes you human again. Sitting with your own thoughts is good for the soul, and you never know, a float might go under, an alarm sound and there’ll be a flurry of activity. Then again, maybe not. It doesn’t matter, you’ve taken time out of the rat race. That’s the key.”

Caught by the River is a lovely new book, currently available for loan in the Lending Library at 72 Rivington Street.