The Options For Amazing Patterns Are Endless
Yes, the 90s called and it wants to teach you how to do a Spirograph effect in Affinity Designer. Actually, it's from the 1960's and it's me that wants to teach you, so here you go.
If you're unfamiliar, a Spirograph is essentially a spinning stencil that let you…

Affinity's Awesome Isometric Tools
One of the absolute best things about Affinity Designer is that it allows you to intuitively create an isometric illustration. In other vector design programs, like Adobe Illustrator, you can also create isometric illustrations. However, you need to create your own grid and manually create all shapes to conform to that…

Affinity Designer vs Illustrator
When I first started using Affinity Designer, it was obvious there was a bit of a learning curve. I was so used to doing things a certain way in Adobe Illustrator. While Affinity is capable of most of the same things as other vector programs, figuring out how to actually…

What is the single most important design software program? For a digital artist, Photoshop or Illustrator might be the most important, but for a publication or print designer, InDesign would be the most important. Then there's all the other, non-Adobe programs that designers and digital artists use like Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher, as well…

When you’re first starting out in design, it’s important to recognize the importance of software knowledge. Specifically, the industry standard software. Currently, the graphic design software you need to know is Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign. Some design agencies and freelancers do use other programs, but since Adobe programs are the current standard…

Over the years I've seen many overly creative graphic designer job titles. Perhaps some designers felt that calling themselves simply a 'graphic designer' just wasn't edgy enough. Maybe they needed a sure-fire way to stand out from the crowd. Somehow, creatives have come up with some interesting alternative job titles to define their jobs. But…

Business card design is one of the staple projects of graphic designers. As soon as we've knocked out a fabulous logo design we stick it on a mock business card. So what do we do when that business card actually needs to go to print? In an effort to use more Affinity software over Adobe,…