Workshop: Affinity Designer Beginner's Course - Details

Workshop: Affinity Designer Beginner's Course - Details

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(0.232 (Ernst-Caspari-Haus (GZMB)))
Tuesday, 30.09.2025 09:00 - 17:00

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Trainers:
The workshop is given by Renate Pommerening and Anna Penkner from [Designdoppel][1], Hamburg

Location:
The workshop location will be announced to registered participants in due time.

Course description:
In this compact course, the participants learn from scratch how to use the vector based graphic software Affinity Designer. No prior knowledge is necessary.

After an introduction about the differences of pixels and vectors, they quickly get to know the workspace and start understanding the most important tools to create and organise their own shapes. They learn how to exactly align the elements of each page, how to add color, draw pathes, create more complex shapes and place type or pictures. In the output chapter they also find out how to save documents for print or web usage.

Exercises after each chapter help internalising the input. Questions are always welcome and there is enough time for individual help. A Handout is given to each participant in the beginning of the course.

IMPORTANT: You need to bring your own laptop to participate in this course!

Testimonials by former participants:
* I truly enjoyed the course. I had very little knowledge on the subject but then I became hooked to it. I think this program will be very useful in my career. The teachers had a lot of patience with beginners like me. It was a great fun class!
* I was happy I took the course. I heard about this tool before but never set myself to learn it. With the examples and exercises, I got a nice introduction to it and quickly got familiar with the software. Funny enough the week after my supervisor requested a figure for a manuscript, and I really could use what we learned in the course.
* The Affinity Designer course was useful, fun, and the time was used efficiently. Anna and Renate were helpful and eager to answer all of the specific questions attendees had. This is a great way to get started with illustration software.
* This workshop gives you essential tools to improve your designs for scientific use. I like that the instructors looked at your work and were always available to answer questions.

[1]: https://www.designdoppel.de/

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "GAUSS_GGNB_Skills_SoSe_2025_Jul_Sep".
You can register for courses in September 2025 from 1-20 July 2025. The slots will be assigned on 25 July 2025.
You can still sign out until 31 July 2025.
Your participation becomes binding on 1 August 2025. Thereafter, cancellation is only possible via the GGNB Office (NOT via contacting the trainer directly) with a) sick certificate, or b) statement by supervisor for science reasons. If you do not provide this, you will be excluded from courses for the next 12 months, as well as travel grants and other financial support. No exceptions.
By signing up you agree (1) to carefully check whether you will be able to attend the course (do not register for 2 courses taking place on the same dates - the above mentioned sanctions apply!), (2) to frequently check your student e-mail account, as all information on courses will exclusively be sent to that account; (3) that your name and e-mail address may be forwarded to the course instructor(s) for communication before and after the course; (4) to complete the course evaluation; (5) inform us if you no longer wish to maintain a waiting list position; (6) that you only receive credits for attending the entire workshop - you will not get partial credits for part-time attendance.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
    • Subject is Systems Neuroscience
    • Subject is Environmental Informatics
    • Subject is Biomol:Struc-Func-Dynamic
    • Subject is Computer Science -PCS-
    • Subject is Statistics Emp. Methods
    • Subject is IRTG 2172 - PRoTECT
    • Subject is Biologische Diversität und Ökologie
    • Subject is Geographie
    • Subject is Psychologie
    • Subject is Umweltinformatik
    • Subject is Molekulare Medizin
    • Subject is Geowissenschaften
    • Subject is SensoryMotor Neuroscience
    • Subject is Biologie
    • Subject is Geography
    • Subject is Cardiovascular Science
    • Subject is Materialforschung Holz
    • Subject is BioNutz-MolwissBiotechnol
    • Subject is Catalysis Sust.Synt.CaSuS
    • Subject is MolecularBiology of Cells
    • Subject is Chemie
    • Subject is Mathematical Sciences
    • Subject is Data Science
    • Subject is Molekulare Biologie
    • Subject is Neurowissenschaften
    • Subject is MetalSites i.Biomolecules
    • Subject is Genome Science
    • Subject is Microbiology-Biochemistry
    • Subject is PhysicsBiologComplexSyste
    • Subject is Genes in Development, Disease and Evolution
    • Subject is Earth and Environmental Sciences
    • Subject is MolecularPhysi oftheBrain
    • Subject is Geoscience
    • Subject is Angewandte Statistik
    • Subject is Physik
    • Subject is Behavior and Cognition
    • Subject is Emerging Infect. Diseases
    • Subject is Theoret Computat Neurosci
  • The enrolment is possible from 01.07.2025, 00:00 to 20.07.2025, 23:59.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 25.07.2025 on 23:59. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.
  • Enrolment is allowed for up to 3 courses of the admission set.
  • At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
    • Degree is PromProgramm Cotutelle
    • Degree is Promotion Cotutelle
    • Degree is PromStudiengang Cotutelle
    • Degree is Promotionsprogramm
    • Degree is Promotion m.Abschlussprfg
    • Degree is Promotionsstudiengang
  • The following categories of people are preferred during seat allocation:

    Higher semesters will be preferred.
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The enrolment is binding, participants cannot unsubscribe themselves.