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Canonical
16 November 2011

Ubuntu Phone, Tablet and TV – discussion opened

Research Ubuntu

Big thanks to everyone who turned up at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando to discuss Ubuntu’s future on new devices! Now, following Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote announcement and a number of initial UDS sessions on tablets, TVs and smartphones, we are setting up new channels to pick up the conversation. We’ve got...

Canonical
16 November 2011

Getting in touch with us

Design Ubuntu

During the past UDS’ we have been repeatedly asked a better way to be reached. There are many reasons why a community member could feel the need of contacting us, and we are more than happy to hear and help if possible! As follow up we are looking into restructuring our communication channels so that

Canonical
16 November 2011

Marcus Haslam
3 November 2011

Juju: a logo with a story

Design Ubuntu

Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote this week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit includes introducing Juju, including a big slide showing off the new Juju logo. Below is the story of how that logo it came into being. The Juju project is done. We asked the Juju community to help, and out of out of love for the

Marcus Haslam
3 November 2011

Canonical
2 November 2011

“When Humans make stuff, we tend to make interesting things.”

Article Ubuntu

Last night I watched “Press Pause Play” which in it’s own words is a film about fear, hope and digital culture. If you’ve not heard the talk surrounding the movie one of the trailers is below and we’ll catch up once you’ve … well … caught up 🙂 Good huh? The interesting thing about Press

Canonical
2 November 2011

Canonical
16 October 2011

Thanks a billion! Ubuntu on Google Webfonts

Design Ubuntu

Kudos to everyone using the Ubuntu Font Family on their websites as a web font! This week the total to date reached over one billion requests—and it’ll go up even faster if you add Ubuntu Mono and Ubuntu Condensed to your sites too. Shortly after the Ubuntu Font Family was added to Google Webfonts directory,

Canonical
16 October 2011

Canonical
11 October 2011

So you’ve decided to make an Ubuntu promotional video

Design Ubuntu

We made a video outlining what makes Ubuntu 11.10 so great and you can make one too in your language using this guide and assets.

Canonical
11 October 2011

Canonical
6 October 2011

Thanks Steve!

Notes Ubuntu

Steve Jobs has been an incredible influential individual to our lives, and especially to our jobs. Thanks to his vision and his drive he made people love, and be proud of, something that before was grey and hidden under our desks. As designers we should be very grateful for having witnessed such a remarkable story

Canonical
6 October 2011

Canonical
28 September 2011

We’ve got mail!

Design Ubuntu

Every day just about everyone at Canonical gets email by the bucket load. Even someone like me who’s only peripherally involved in desktop development and files his own bugs through the release cycle can get get hundreds of emails from Launchpad every day. So it made our day to get a letter like this from

Canonical
28 September 2011

Inayaili de León Persson
27 September 2011

The new Ubuntu App Developer website

Design Ubuntu

We’re happy to unveil the brand new Ubuntu App Developer website today, a place where developers who want to create Ubuntu applications can find all the information they need and get in touch with the Ubuntu app developer community to share ideas, ask questions and get all the news and events. Ubuntu App Developer’s website

Inayaili de León Persson
27 September 2011

Canonical
21 September 2011

Modified Ubuntu: Software Freedom Day

Design Ubuntu

To celebrate Software Freedom Day 2011 we got sent one of the banners showing the new SFD logo. The logo design is based around a custom-modified version of the Ubuntu Font Family (the fonts come with source code, and modification is allowed as long as you follow the rules). There are some photographs showing the

Canonical
21 September 2011

Marcus Haslam
16 September 2011

Juju

Article Ubuntu

We are about to start the exciting job of branding juju (formerly Ensemble), I’m putting the brief out to you, please share your ideas and suggestions and of course publish them. We do have a deadline, so could we please have your designs whether sketches or otherwise by Friday 23rd and and we will review

Marcus Haslam
16 September 2011

Canonical
14 September 2011

A monospace that looks like a proportional

Design Ubuntu

To join the Ubuntu Monospace beta and give feedback, apply to the ubuntu-typeface-interest team on Launchpad and follow the PPA instructions after being accepted. Timeline Hardly a day has gone by in the last six-months without the design team being asking when the Ubuntu Mono monospace is going to be available. Like...

Canonical
14 September 2011

Canonical
30 August 2011

Picturing the end of the road for another cycle

Design Ubuntu

First of all a big thank you to everyone who submitted a wallpaper to our collection for the Oneiric release and to all our previous selected contributors who went through the images and selected the fine selection for this release! We had almost 2000 submissions this cycle and managed to whittle that down to

Canonical
30 August 2011

Canonical
22 August 2011

History of the Alphabet (Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic)

Design Ubuntu

The BBC just put up a five-minute audio slideshow “The story of how we got our alphabets” about the development of western writing, starting in 3,000 BC in Mesopotamia with various attempts at proto-writing systems and then Cuneiform script. It shows the history of the alphabet, stemming from the Phoenician alphabet and...

Canonical
22 August 2011

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