The market for high-end graphic design software just got weirder. Several years ago, I wrote “Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2” (5 December 2022) to encourage those who were ...

The popular three Affinity design apps on Mac and Windows both have been scrapped, as Canva combines all previous functions into a single and completely free Mac app. Now that announcement and the ...

And Canva really, really wants you to know that it’s completely free. And Canva really, really wants you to know that it’s completely free. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing ...

Adobe just wrapped up its Max keynote, which means its time for its biggest free competitor to announce its own set of new features. While Adobe's done its best to keep up with Canva by adding its own ...

Ahead of a mysterious announcement on October 30 iPad versions of Affinity's suite of apps — Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher, and Affinity Designer — have been made entirely free. We think you need ...

If you’ve ever wanted to use Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Publisher 2, and Affinity Designer 2 on your iPad, but never got around to buying them, now’s your chance. These three apps are now free, but ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The assault on free speech in the United States entered an alarming new phase this week — and not only in the ...

Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Language and Linguistics, Australian National University In the past year or so, three Australian publishing mergers happened within a few short months. Text ...

Marijn Wiersma wants to challenge how women think about their careers. "Don’t confuse grit with well-being," advised Wiersma, a corporate anthropologist based in the Netherlands and founder of ...

The rules of Oceania in George Orwell’s “1984” were clear: “Not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.” Any book that carried the wrong line “had to ...

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