Serif releases free alternative to Adobe Illustrator

Affinity Designer screenshot

Affinity Designer is a vector-drawing tool at a low price (and currently free in beta)

Over the last 25 years, Serif's range of software has long been highly regarded within the design community as providing a decent cut-price alternative to Adobe's.

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Tom May

Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects. 

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