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.

To coincide with some broader changes, we will be adding substantially to the Education section of the site this year, with further work and careers related content. As part of this, CST creative director Dave Trott has kindly agreed to our reproducing some content from his excellent blog.

My art school was in Brooklyn.
They used to send us into Manhattan once a week, to learn from the pros on Madison Avenue.
One evening, while I was waiting for the class to start, I was sitting in a coffee bar on Times Square.
I noticed a black girl sitting at the counter.
She had a white Band-Aid on her leg.
I though, hang on, that’s supposed to be flesh-coloured Band-Aid.
But it’s not her flesh colour.
Why not?

Due to continuing expansion, Studio Output is looking for an enthusiastic graduate with excellent communication and organisational skills to help run their Clerkenwell studio. Full details can be found here.

The above image, taken from the Studio Output website, is team member (and YCN collaborator) Jeffrey Bowman.

Ctrl.Alt.Shift are running a film project in conjunction with Clash and Little White Lies. Treatments are invited on the subjects of HIV and Stigma, Gender Power and Poverty, War and Peace. Full details here.

An opportunity exists to assist with the day to day running of the Tom Dixon Press Office and to assist with developing relationships with the UK and International media. Full details can be found here.

... 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.