The YCN Alphabet is starting to take shape. 26 Designers, Illustrators and Image makers will be crafting a letter based on a template we've produced. The letters will then be photographed to make various words throughout the book. You can see a rough draft of these letterforms over at the Serif website by clicking on the image above.

Part of Alex's 'wall and tape' based organisational structure... er, thingy...

Thanks again for all the quality applications we received for the Art Direction placement advertised earlier. Last year we had Holly Wales helping out on Art Direction duties with Steve Wilcox and Simon Whybray supplying some quality Graphic Design.

This year we've been lucky enough to draft in Alex Bec (one half of the 'If you could do anything tomorrow' team) to help out, Art Directing the YCN Alphabet capsule project that will be featured throughout BOOK 0708 as well as helping out with a few other bits and pieces. More names will be added soon.

This the YCN Technobunny receiving RSS Feeds and bits of technobabble and then regaling us with it's ability to feed them out aloud of it's own accord. Still waiting for any pearls of wisdom to issue forth from Technobunny... it's a bit of a crap name for it, huh. It you can think of a better one please let us know.

I've been a bit slack with the blog this year so humblest apologies. There are a few changes to this year's edition. For a start it's going to be BIGGER, like physically bigger... actually the page size is the same (if it ain't broke) but there's more of 'em. We've just started a capsule project to develop a YCN Alphabet too which will run alongside and be incorporated into the end product. There's loads of other changes I'll tell you about too. The images I'm currently posting are snippets of some of this year's awards work.

Applications for the Art Direction placement have now closed. Thanks to everyone who emailed in. We'll (well, I'll) be getting back to you all in the next day or so.

Thanks to those members who have responded to our shout out for people interested in helping art direct a project associated with the next book. We're holding onto your CVs and samples and will be going through them real soon. If you haven't sent anything in, don't fret there's still loads of time (I think loads... maybe just heaps.... don't quote me on that...)

Possible new typeface for BOOK 0708. Got a typeface suggestion? Leave a comment and let me know.

Want to help out with the next YCN BOOK? Click on the image above for details.