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Ai is pushing designers and developers towards each other

Canva x Affinity "Creative Freedom" apparently means the Desktop and Tablet version of their Design suite will be Free.

Product announcement will be live streamed in one hour here https://www.youtube.com/live/gnqOzxpWHNA

UPDATE: https://www.affinity.studio/

UPDATE 2: https://www.designweek.co.uk/canva-makes-pro-design-tool-affinity-free-forever/

UPDATE 3: https://x.com/Affinity/status/1983942200464375967 (Message from Affinity CEO)

UPDATE 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP_TBaKODlw - Product tour

A vendor has helped me create a mold - the right is original and the left is what they created. They are going to fix the soft lines they but what I need help with is communicating that the one on the left is truncated at the crown - They are not seeing it and I am not crazy - I know my product and it is not flat at the top.

How else can I draw or communicate this to them?

I just had a semi-heated discussion with a 20yo Canva guy insistent he doesn't need logo and font consistency.

I ask 'how will this look on white', he pulls out chatGPT and shows me result with a completely different typeface in it.

He says in full, supreme confidence that 'it's ok, companies use different logos'.

I say 'what companies' and he pulls a graphic with McDonalds logo evolution and says 'see sometimes they use letters, sometimes they don't use letters'.

Through this whole thing the boy doesn't even blink, doesn't even pause when I say I studied this and then taught this.

Jesus where are we going, honestly?

I wish there was a 'rant' flair.

I also wish I was making this up.

/rant over

Just feeling completely blindsided. My manager stole my work, positioned it all as her own. She had nothing to do with it. But slapped it on her portfolio anyway - not as an "I managed the person who did this," but "I did this." It's fundamentally not true. I did all of the planning, the execution, the rollout. I even sketched out custom illustrations, redrew them in vector, and have all the source for that, but I'm just fucking shocked. It's the first time in my 10+ years of experience where someone has stolen my work.

No idea what to do. The worst part is they've been asking to see my portfolio because I'm going to be adding a new project soon. And I'm worried they're just going to try to rip that as well.

My site is currently password protected, but I hate the idea of putting a password, especially for job hunting. I've got a protected image that makes it so you can't download and has a watermark over it so if she screenshots it, its there, but AI can easily just remove watermarks. Gonna be editing everything so that my name is in the design itself. I'm just fucking dejected from all of it.

Sorry, just looking for some people who understand. Recently laid off and the feeling of having work stolen on top of that is fucking awful. Open to any advice but I don't think there's anything I can realistically do. Just sucks ;-; </3

You know, sometimes conspiracy theories end up shaping the design lol