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Gracing the packaging of a new range of supplements called Strong is a series of beautiful birds from illustrator Andrew Lyons…

Strong is a new range of supplements founded by Zana Morris, owner of The Library gym in London. The brand has been created by agency Pearlfisher who asked Lyons to illustrate the range in an attempt to move the packaging design away from the text-heavy direction more commonly found in the dietary supplements industry.

The use of particular birds also relates to the supplement in question, with an owl appearing on the brain food label, while a puffin is used on the Omega 3 Krill Oil packaging. Art direction on the project is by Karen Welman.

Lyons is based in Mayenne in France and represented by Handsome Frank; more of his work can be seen on handsomefrank.com and also lyonsa.com.

Out now, the May 2013 issue of Creative Review is our biggest ever. Features over 100 pages of the year’s best work in the Creative Review Annual 2013 (in association with iStockphoto), plus profiles on Morag Myerscough, Part of a Bigger Plan and Human After All as well as analysis, comment, reviews and opinion

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More than 300 graffiti artists and illustrators will visit Bristol this weekend for free annual urban street art festival Upfest.

From May 25-27, artists from Europe, Asia, the US and Africa will paint 20,000 square feet of artwork on boards, buildings, a subway train and a skate park in Bedminster, south Bristol.

Events will take place on North Street and at Raleigh Road venue The Tobacco Factory (home to a market, cafe and creative spaces), which will host RnB, beatbox and hip hop performances as well as a live illustration battle and a graffiti workshop for children and adults.

The festival is raising funds for the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA) and is sponsored by art pen makers POSCA. Artists attending include Faith47 from South Africa, DALeast of China, C215 from France and Italy’s Peeta.

Upfest started six years ago as a paint jam between a small group of artists. As word of mouth spread, so did the number involved. “There hasn’t been masses of publicity about the event – it’s mostly been artists telling each other and the number has grown to around 320 this year,” says founder Stephen Hayles.

“As it got bigger, we thought it would be nice to help raise the profile of NACOA and hopefully raise some money,” he adds.

Most local residents are positive about the festival, says Hayles, and its success has helped Bedminster secure a place on Mary Portas’s pilot high street renovation scheme.

“Not everyone likes it, but it brings more people to Bedminster and even those who don’t like all of the artwork appreciate the talent and creativity it takes to paint a 30-metre high building,” he adds.

For details visit www.upfest.co.uk

Images (from top): art by Soulful Crew, Soker, Lokie and Inkie created at last year’s Upfest. Photography by Paul Green.

Out now, the May 2013 issue of Creative Review is our biggest ever. Features over 100 pages of the year’s best work in the Creative Review Annual 2013 (in association with iStockphoto), plus profiles on Morag Myerscough, Part of a Bigger Plan and Human After All as well as analysis, comment, reviews and opinion

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Best in Show features over 40 of Robert Clarke’s canine ‘mug shot’ paintings

Clarke has been painting dogs for over three years, with exhibitions at Paul Smith’s Sloane Square shop and an upcoming book with fashion brand Loewe.

The new exhibition, which opens at Cricket Fine Art in Chelsea on May 21, features a host of new work varying in size from 12 inches square to four feet by five.

Best in Show is at Cricket Fine Art, London SW10 from May 21 to June 1, 2013.

Out now, the May 2013 issue of Creative Review is our biggest ever. Features over 100 pages of the year’s best work in the Creative Review Annual 2013 (in association with iStockphoto), plus profiles on Morag Myerscough, Part of a Bigger Plan and Human After All as well as analysis, comment, reviews and opinion

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Do you excel at explaining phenomena ranging from plate tectonics to nuclear fission using only a pen and a dinner napkin? Doodle double helices—and their accompanying nucleotides? Then listen up, because the American Association for the Advancement of Science (or “triple-A S,” as the cool kids call it) is looking for a new visual Einstein to join the graphics and layout department for its flagship journal, Science, at its Washington, D.C., headquarters. Need you be able to tell xylem from phloem, ventricles from atria, a chupacabra from an exasperated kangaroo? Probably not, but be ready to describe how your “proven ability to create sophisticated, high quality visuals” will react with your “strong technology skills in contemporary software packages” to keep the visual standards of Science as high as its impact factor. And don’t forget to balance your equation.

Learn more about this scientific technical illustrator, American Association for the Advancement of Science job or view all of the current mediabistro.com design/art/photo jobs.

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Are UK universities failing to provide adequate tools and technology services to students? A survey of first years commissioned by Adobe suggests that many institutions are falling short of expectations

The Adobe Digital Campus 2013 report surveyed 1,000 new students about their experience of university life so far. The company claims the following key findings:

55% of this year’s student intake – the first to pay the higher fees – said that their university is not living up to their expectations.

Two-thirds (63%) of students said they expected to have access to more support facilities and services than they are actually getting.

As many as half of students only have access to basic tools such as the internet, email and basic programmes, falling short of the 82% who expected their university to go above and beyond a basic technology provision before they started their course.

A third (33%) of students admitted they do not feel their university is equipped to help them get a job at the end of their studies, whilst almost half (49%) do not think their chosen institution has good enough links with business.

96% of students identified ‘increasing their chances of employment’ as the number one reason behind their decision to go to university in the first place.

Of course these findings should be seen in the context of the company behind the survey – Adobe obviously has a vested interest in universities spending money on ‘industry standard’ (ie their) software. Also, the survey was conducted across the entire spectrum of subjects, not just art and design. And we might also query what level of ‘expectation’ students have – is it realistic in the first place? Are they making assumptions or are they basing their expectations on what was ‘sold’ to them by universities on open days/at interview etc?

All survey findings of this nature should be taken with a pinch of salt but what perhaps this report does further underline is the changing nature of the relationship between student and university which the advent of tuition fees is fostering. Tutors up and down the country have told CR that students now view themselves very much as consumers – as do their parents. They come to open days armed with specific questions about what they will get for their money – including technological provision and employability.

Perhaps readers could let us know of their experiences – are universities providing adequate technology provision on creative courses? Tutors, are students coming with unrealistic expectations of the kind of support they will receive? And what about the wider question of the changing relationship between student and university – what has been your experience of that?

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Out now, the May 2013 issue of Creative Review is our biggest ever. Features over 100 pages of the year’s best work in the Creative Review Annual 2013 (in association with iStockphoto), plus profiles on Morag Myerscough, Part of a Bigger Plan and Human After All as well as analysis, comment, reviews and opinion

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