We're looking for someone nice to come and help us at YCN with the organisational and project management side of what we do for the next three months.

The job will involve working full time from our workspace on Rivington Street in London. You'll need to be very well organised, with good all round communication skills and a keen critical eye for design and illustration. You'll be helping to make existing projects run smoothly - and get new ones off the ground. As such you will liaise with clients, designers and illustrators daily. More information on the opportunity, and how to apply, can be found here.

Michael Bojkowski, designer of our 0607 and 0708 Books + the first issue of Ideas Illustrated, has given his brilliant blog a visual overhaul and a new name. Have a look here.

Chrissie has made some changes to her website, with a number of new projects added. See it here.

To commission Chrissie through YCN call the studio on +44 (0)20 7033 2140

... has added a number of new projects to his site, including work created through YCN for Playstation (shown above) and the Science Council. You can see it all via his profile.

Green Thing is a non-profit public service that inspires people to lead a greener life. Green Thing focus on seven things you can do and use great creativity from brilliant people across the world to engage people and make those seven things feel fun and vibrant; things that people might actually want to do rather than think they ought to do.

In January, the heaviest flight-booking month of the year, Green Thing is going to ask people to Stay Grounded – ie avoid booking or taking a flight if they can. To do this, they are going to launch Protest Paper Planes around London. Each paper plane will be a folded up sheet of A4 with a brilliant piece of anti-flying artwork on it.

It can be anything – a drawing, an illustration, a photo, a piece of writing, a paper sculpture. It can be clever or funny or beautiful or witty or subversive or encouraging or critical or provocative. Full details can be found here.

A big thanks to all those who sent, or brought in, decorations for our Nordic Spruce Christmas Tree, shown above with Katt Jones and Emma Denby. See more photos on Flickr.

Can you turn 300 shoes into art that highlights HIV and AIDS? ActionAid are looking for an artist to collaborate on their current campaign Put Your Foot Down, which highlights the link between violence against women and HIV AIDS in developing countries.

Hundreds of people have been sending in their old shoes to show their support, and ActionAid will present them to the UK government in March 2009 on International Women's Day. They are running a competition to find an artist who can turn these shoes into a striking artwork that reminds our government that 2876 women become infected with HIV everyday. The winner will create the piece during February, with production, transport and installation costs covered. A full brief and details on how to enter can be requested by email.

OKAYstudio and friends have been busy with the ongoing installation of furniture and fittings at our new workplace. The focus is the first floor, see photos at Flickr.

Many thanks to everyone (including Rosy whose glittery type is shown above) to have sent in something for our tree so far. Presents, in exchange, are going in the post daily to arrive before the big day. A set of images can be seen on Flickr.

Feel Good drinks have contributed live creative briefs to the YCN Awards in recent years (you can see the latest one here), and have just commissioned 2007 Commended entrant Debbie Hulme to produce a festive something for them. You can see the outcome in all its glory at YouTube.

... Company London have a new site with new work on show.

Earlier this year we helped Nexus Productions find some model making assistance for an animation by Johnny Kelly. The piece, created for Adobe, includes some splendid paper creations by Elin Svensson and can be seen here (there's a making of film here).

A handful of images of gifts from under this year's YCN Christmas Tree have been photographed by Tom and can be seen on Flickr. Presents include toys, an ornamental sphynx, vouchers, designer vests, mags, prints and even Books. Send, or bring, us any decoration for the tree and claim your bounty. More details here.

Graphic designer Tom Speirs is the most recent graduate to join YCN on a creative internship. If you're interested in doing so in 2009 then please send an email with your CV and work examples (keeping attachments below 5 meg).

The team from Berlin based outfit Nepomuk paid a visit today and showed their work, much of which can be seen here.

Yulia visited YCN last week to discuss her contribution to the coming issue of Ideas Illustrated. Earlier she sent through artwork produced for today's G2 cover (shown) and to support other festive editorial within. See more of her work here.