Hue Studio’s Iridescent Brand Identity for Cru+ Café & Patisserie https://theinspirationgrid.com/hue-studios-iridescent-brand-identity-for-cru-cafe-patisserie/ #branding #GraphicDesign #DesignInspiration #DesignInspo #inspiration #InspirationGrid

Give us your favourite designed books. Not necessarily the outside covers, but how the layout looks inside. Lot of art books and RPGs look lovely.

I’m a big fan of the typographical play of House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielowski and the NASA branding guidelines from the 1970s.

How about you?

I've learned to take the word "forever" as a suggestion rather than a promise when it comes to software licenses, and obviously I can't tell the future; I just had a really bad feeling when I found out that Canva purchased Serif and as a result, Serif Affinity. But with all that said... if this new Affinity is built on the same bones as the old Affinity, and it is indeed free for "forever", this is quite a bold move. My apologies to everyone involved for my immediate skepticism; I literally just found out about this like 5 minutes ago, but hey... companies don't acquire other companies for warm feelings.

Obviously the business move here is to leverage the near universal disdain for Adobe, and the appetite for a truly viable alternative (that doesn't run in the fucking browser) to Adobe's suite of apps (that they've spent the past decade making progressively worse than they've ever been; I actually hate working in Photoshop these days, which 14 year old me could never have imagined), to convince those in the position to choose (freelancers for example) to make the switch, some of whom will likely pay for cloud features (and AI, because of course). And I'm sure they're also hoping to capture some budding young designers who aren't holding onto years/decades of Adobe muscle memory, which could be a big deal in the future if the response to this new Affinity (again, I really do hope it's got the bones of Affinity 2, as opposed to Canva or Figma (blech), because Serif had something really great on their hands) is anywhere near what they're hoping it is. I only wish they had any interest in a Linux release at any point in time, but hey, baby steps lol.

Any designers have any feelings? I haven't really taken a deep dive yet, but I'm definitely going to download a copy on a Win10 install to see what's what.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbGcO9x0VlQ

THUMBNAIL DESIGN SHOWCASE
-2rd iteration-

Requester: Christ Kawbod TV
Organisation: CKTV
Channel: CKTV (https://www.youtube.com/@CHRIST-KABOWD_T%C3%89L%C3%89VISION) on YouTube

Concept & Design: FoJI Creative Studios
Designed in: Pointe-Noire, RC
Client Location: Paris, France

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#youtube #graphic #graphicdesign #creative #blender3d #coreldraw #japon #mockup
#art #branding #brandingdesign #designer #france #microsoft #affinity #canva

THUMBNAIL DESIGN SHOWCASE
-2rd iteration-

Requester: Zeni
Organisation: We Digital Service

Concept & Design: FoJI Creative Studios
Designed in: Pointe-Noire, RC
Client Location: Paris, France

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#art #branding #brandingdesign #designer #france #microsoft #affinity #canva

THUMBNAIL DESIGN SHOWCASE
-2rd iteration-

Requester: Christ Kawbod TV
Organisation: CKTV
Channel: CKTV (https://www.youtube.com/@CHRIST-KABOWD_T%C3%89L%C3%89VISION) on YouTube
Title: Parlons-En

Concept & Design: FoJI Creative Studios
Designed in: Pointe-Noire, RC
Client Location: Paris, France

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#art #branding #brandingdesign #designer #france #microsoft

So, Affinity have been bought by Canva. They have released their products for free.
These previously cost c£50 each and I personally thought they were excellent standalone alternatives to Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign that were suitable for professional use.
Now they are bundled into one app and free...as long as you sign up for a Canva account. There is a paid tier that gives you AI support.
This feels too good to be true.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91426062/canvas-new-free-affinity-app-wants-to-sink-the-adobe-flagships