William Overington

Looking at the two images, I find that they appear to use the same symbols as each other for each of the hours.
William
 

I have now found the following.
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F700.pdf
Please note 1F729
and
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf
Please note 2643
William
 

Thanks for the feedback, I'll play with it some more using your ideas! 

If you select an object and press Ctrl+J you’ll get a duplicate object directly on top of the original. Transforming the copy (i.e. moving, rotating or resizing it) and then pressing Ctrl+J again will give you another copy with the same transformations applied: this is what’s known as ‘Power duplicate’.
 Yes, it does.

Not exactly. The one I saw was white and did not have the fancy shaped pointers, but otherwise was very much like it.
Thank you for posting.
William
 

Instead of calculating twelve points, let Affinity Designer do the calculation for you! And instead of making eleven copies of one text box, make five copies of a pair of text boxes:
1. Create the first text box and duplicate it
2. Align the duplicate vertically with the original
3. Adjust the vertical distance between the two boxes
4. Group the pair of boxes and duplicate the group
5. Rotate the duplicate group by 30° (or -30°)
6. ‘Power duplicate’ four times
Other PDF viewers are available.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5209?installation_image_index=35
Please click on the centre of the nearby blue disc for further information.
To me, the stated dimensions do not seem to go with the image as they seem to indicate a shape more like a cuboid than a panel.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5209
William
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I'm wondering if it was a variation of this clock.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/pharmacy-wall-clock-alchemy-symbols-vintage
It doesn't say who the manufacturer was but I'm guessing it could be the same company (Richard A, Klein, inc) that made the one in the pic you linked to. They made advertising display items and the ones they produced for Pharmacies used a lot of alchemy symbols. They produced clocks, barometers, mortar & pestles that were given out by pharmaceutical companies to pharmacies that sold their products. 

Hi William. Living room clocks like that were pretty common back then. I'm an old guy and I remember these types of clocks. They all had something like rays emanating from the clock. Most seem to have triangular pieces, giving a sun ray or compass kind of look but they also had clocks similar to the one in my pic called ball clocks. A long worded answer to say it's based on a common mid century design.

I use at first a thin black brush and painted the square on a separate layer. On a second layer I filled the square. Later added a texture layer and blended the layer with soft light.

Not only my first Affinity Designer image, but my first forum post, as well. So, you know, HI.  I purchased Designer a while back, but my computer gave up the ghost shortly after. Other than trying to familiarize myself with the software, and watching a few tutorials, I never had the chance to create anything with it, until now. I wasn't an Adobe Illustrator user, but until yesterday, I was a Photoshop user. After using Designer, I decided to switch to Photo.
I have a thing for Mid Century Modern, so I thought I'd try something similar with Designer. Because it is mostly a bunch of simple shapes combined it was a good first project to give me a feel for the software. It's nothing compared to some of the other creations I've seen on here but I had fun with it.
 

Painted in Affinity Photo using my tablet

Of course!  Some image management / cataloguing software can do simple edits but enable you to pass the image to another program (an external editor) to do the more demanding stuff.  Not a problem with the Serif sourced versions, but the MS Store puts the apps in a secure (overly secure?) environment so you can't use them like that.
Yes, the 10s computers are generaly low spec, with a limited and hence cheaper OS - suitable for schools / children.  The (£50?) removal of the limitations is an upgrade to Win 10 Pro.

This might be helpful.
https://www.evertype.com/alphabets/french.pdf
I have just now tried copying from that page and pasting an â character to a text frame in Affinity Designer. Just format as to size and font once pasted into Affinity Designer.
I pasted the â in this post from the clipboard too.
One of a collection of PDF (Portable Document Format) documents linked from the following page.
https://www.evertype.com/alphabets/
William
 
 
 
 

Win 10 S will only run apps from the MS Store.  It's intended for school use rather than general use.  The downside to buying the Affinity apps from the MS Store is that they're sandboxed and, so far as I know, can't be used as external editors.

I want to buy the Affinity Photo, but i have a computer and a laptop (that I carry on travels), both are Windows. Can I install Affinity Photo on both or do I need to buy a second license?
It's for personal use.

Thank you Alfred for your time! It was that! The color profile was different on each document, and that was changing the colors. Thanks! 

Sorry, I’m referring to the number of bits per pixel, which can be 8 or 16 for RGB, CMYK, or Grey colour spaces, or 16 for Lab, or 32 for RGB HDR.

Hi everybody,
Finally finished a new interactive exhibition map after working hard! All graphics are created with Affinity Designer and Wacom Tablet. With around 750 stands and lots of roads making it possible to create milions of unique routes (each stand to each stand), this was pretty intensive Designer work, next to the programming and animating!
BTW not really Designer-specific, but if you're interested; when requesting a route it even takes into account the actual traffic to calculate the fastest route on the fly!
Hope you guys like it! 😀
 
 

Thank you.
When I receive the PSD templates I will try to have a go and try to find out what happens.
William
 

The Affinity apps can ‘understand’ Smart Objects now, so they can use PSD files that include them, but I’m not sure whether a PSD export from Affinity can include layers that Photoshop will treat as Smart Objects.
It should be noted that any text in an Affinity document will not be rendered as editable text on export to PSD format.

Hi William,
All affinity apps can export to PSD so each should be suitable for producing a PSD template.
Thanks
C

There are currently no animation features at all in the Affinity apps, and Serif staff have indicated that they don’t plan to add them any time soon.
 

Creating a SIMPLE animation tool/feature for Affinity Designer is actually VERY easy to do. The devs only need to add codes that will unclick/click the layer(1,2,3) so we will see how the image would look like if animated.
By clicking Play, the layers (1,2,3) will be clicked/unclicked/looped. It's a very simple animation but it's good enough to give us an idea and it's a start.

Affinity has Publisher, Designer, and Photo, do you use ALL the features? No, right? So just consider my suggestion as one of the features you won't use but others, like me, may find useful.