Projects & Credentials

When I first became interested in graphic design, I wanted to learn how the Affinity Suite works. It’s an alternative to Adobe, with many of the same features. I decided to complete courses on Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher through Udemy, which helped me build a strong foundation in graphic design.

These courses gave me hands-on experience with professional tools and techniques, such as photo editing and retouching, creating advanced shapes and graphics with fills and gradients, and designing layouts for digital publishing. I also learned how to confidently navigate each software’s interface, use key tools and export projects for different platforms and purposes.

The certificates are presented below.

During the Affinity courses, I worked on creative assignments where I could try out new ideas and apply the skills I was learning.
These projects gave me practical experience and helped me grow my creative skills in design.

Below are two examples.

Design 1. Hiking shoes inspired by Mount Everest

For this project, I created a shoe design inspired by Mount Everest, based on the idea of Seven Natural Wonders of the World footwear. For the design, I worked with colors sampled directly from a reference photo, applying hex codes to build a cohesive palette.

The design was built in Affinity Designer, using vector tools and color fills. This project reflects how real-life inspiration can be transformed into a unique and wearable design concept.

Design 2. London city map on a guitar

For this project, I explored the idea of connecting musical instruments with satellite images of cities by blending a map of London onto a plain wooden guitar.

In Affinity Photo, I used masking techniques to shape the map to the guitar’s contours and applied layer adjustments, blend modes, and opacity refinements for realistic integration. This design required great attention to detail to complete.

Overall, this demonstrates how technical image editing skills can transform a simple object into a visually insteresting concept.

Besides the courses on Udemy, I enrollered into several other courses on LinkedIn and earned certificates of completion. Below are some examples, with the full list and certificates available on my LinkedIn profile.

Introduction to Graphic Design

Key focus points:

• Core design principles

• Image editing in Photoshop

• Vector design in Illustrator

• Document design in InDesign

• Creative process awareness