Wallpapers for February 2019

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Testing Affinity Publisher

Since Affinity Publisher beta came out I wanted to make a quick layout design to see how my InDesign workflow transferred to another program. There was no real difference and even in beta Publisher had most of the things I was looking for.

This is a much-needed cheatsheet for myself while playing D&D.

Tikkujätkät

The film Kingsman: The Golden Circle introduced British and American secret agencies, Kingsman and Statesman. Outwardly they work as a tailor shop and a brewery. I wanted to have some fun and design the look for a Finnish alternative, their facade being a forest industry. The agents' codenames would be trees which would work well undercover because they are also normal Finnish surnames.

The logo has a hidden billhook in the letter J as a nod to the forest industry. The agents use billhooks, wire saws and chainsaws as weapons. I tried to make the logo of Tikkujätkät distinctive from their colleagues but still make them work as a matching set. Kingsman has a circular emblem, Statesman has a star, whereas Tikkujätkät sports a familiar diamond shape from Finnish salmiakki and Jussishirt.

Gravit practice

To get back to graphic designing I gave myself a challenge: design a business card and resume for a chef acquaintance using only resources that are free. Enter Gravit.io. It's like a limited browser-based Illustrator. For the resume I used Google Docs so that my customer could easily fill in his info himself. Making a neat layout in a word-processing app was difficult but proved the point I wanted to make with this exercise which is I don't need expensive programs to brush up on some design principles.

(A placeholder name, obviously)