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15 vector mountains
15 Mountain Vectors for Designing Logos and Simple Illustrations 🏔️
 15 Mountain Vectors for Designing Logos and Simple Illustrations 🏔️ 1024 640 Nick Saporito
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In this post you’ll find a download link for 15 vector mountain silhouettes and outlines that can be used for crafting logos and simple illustrations. These vectors are part of a nature bundle that I’ll be releasing for sale later this year, but they can now be purchased individually. Be sure to subscribe to my…

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New Features In Affinity Designer 🗞️ Welcome To Version 2.4!
 New Features In Affinity Designer 🗞️ Welcome To Version 2.4! 1024 640 Nick Saporito
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Earlier today Serif released version 2.4 of Affinity Designer and with it comes some new features and tools.The biggest new addition is the Layer States menu, which allows you to toggle the visibility of multiple layers based on parameters of your choosing.Some other new features include…The ability to export DXF and DWG files The ability…

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Realistic Wildlife Silhouettes 🦝 More Nature Vectors 🦌
 Realistic Wildlife Silhouettes 🦝 More Nature Vectors 🦌 800 470 Nick Saporito
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This post contains a download for a collection of 40 realistic wildlife silhouettes. The designs include various types of animals commonly found in nature. They pair nicely with the nature-themed designs I’ve sent out over the past couple of weeks. Use them to create logos, badges, emblems, and various types of vector illustrations: They can…

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Vector Tree Silhouettes 🌳 Nature Vector Pack 🌳
 Vector Tree Silhouettes 🌳 Nature Vector Pack 🌳 800 470 Nick Saporito
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This post includes a download for 24 vector tree silhouettes that you can add to your toolbox and use to craft logos, badges, and various types of illustrations. The silhouettes can be edited in any vector-based application, including Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity Designer. You can edit the nodes, change the fill and stroke properties, perform…

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Logos By Nick Is Once Again Accepting Clients
 Logos By Nick Is Once Again Accepting Clients 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Greetings and Happy New Year! 2024 marks a pivot in how I do business, so I wanted to share a brief update.A couple of years ago I stopped taking on freelance work so I could focus full-time on content creation. At the time I had many projects and ideas I wanted to explore, but I…

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Affinity Designer VS Illustrator
Affinity Designer VS Illustrator | Everything You Need To Know
 Affinity Designer VS Illustrator | Everything You Need To Know 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Affinity Designer and Adobe Illustrator are two of the more popular choices in the world of vector design software. Despite the fact that they both function in a way that is fundamentally similar, they also have a lot of differences between them, and those differences are significant enough to make choosing between them a real…

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The operating system graphic designers use most.
Poll: 72% Of Graphic Designers Use Windows As Their Operating System
 Poll: 72% Of Graphic Designers Use Windows As Their Operating System 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Have you ever wondered which operating system graphic designers use most? Personally, I’ve always just assumed that designers use Mac exclusively. After all, it’s what most studios and agencies are equipped with, and Apple devices have always seemed especially popular among the design and branding crowd. Speculation isn’t enough. So I polled my YouTube subscribers…

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Design Made Simple reaches 100K subscribers
Another Logos By Nick YouTube Channel Reaches 100K Subscribers!
 Another Logos By Nick YouTube Channel Reaches 100K Subscribers! 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Back in 2017 I started a second YouTube channel for Adobe Illustrator tutorials and called it “Illustrator For Beginners”. I later on rebranded it to “Design Made Simple” so I could include other applications as well, such as Photoshop and the Affinity suite. The idea was to duplicate the success I had with my original…

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MacBook Air for graphic design
Using A MacBook Air For Graphic Design? Not So Fast!
 Using A MacBook Air For Graphic Design? Not So Fast! 800 470 Nick Saporito
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If you’re in the market for a graphic design laptop then the new MacBook Airs are hard to miss. Thanks to the new ARM-powered M1 chip, using a MacBook Air for graphic design is now a reality, but you should only do so depending on the type of design work you’d like to pursue. Despite…

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Common mistakes new Inkscape users make
5 Common Mistakes New Inkscape Users Make
 5 Common Mistakes New Inkscape Users Make 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Inkscape is a large application with lots of advanced tools and features. As a new user, you have a lot to learn, and you’re probably going to make some mistakes along the way. In this video I’ll be going over some of the more common mistakes new users make so you can avoid making them…

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