Ok, so #adobe and #adobegate. It poses a very real problem for me and my firm, and I need to do something about it.

But what? I’m guessing Apple will launch a creative suite soon enough, and I’m guessing it’ll be good. This shit they’re really good at, or used to be anyway.

And I guess there will be more alternatives, kinda like Davinci for film making.

Shit like Gimp just isn’t good enough. I applaud the thought, I really do, but man, programming isn’t enough. You need designers to design.

So I want commercial alternatives. But are there any out there today? Real alternatives, for professional designers?

Or is there someone with a few million dollars who wants to make a new creative suit?

We’ve got the skills to make it pretty, and to make it fly. If you have the money and the programmers (oh, sorry, developers) there is a very real business opportunity here.

@thelovebing Do you need alternatives for all the 20+ tools in Adobe's suite? If not, Affinity might be a contender. Cherry-picking your own suite is another way to go. At my previous firm, designers got shit done using Sketch and Pixelmator. They are designers with a hacker mindset, though, so tools don't really matter that much. Give them a stick or a bit of charcoal, and they will design for you.

@sven Nah, it’s (mostly) Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign. Affinity seems like a contender.

Do you know if they’ve got something like Adobe fonts? Very practical thing to have.