Blog posts tagged
"submissions"

7 posts

Canonical
28 January 2013

Raring to ringlead this cycle

Design Ubuntu

Raring Ringtail is well under way with delicious new visual elements being dropped in all the time, and the new default wallpaper has already landed. Now it’s our turn to add some community contributed assets to the mix in the form of the wallpapers submitted by us, the users of Ubuntu. Last cycle we limited

Canonical
28 January 2013

Canonical
23 March 2012

The Pangolin wallpaper selection takes flight

Article Ubuntu

For another cycle a selection of images has been put forward for inclusion in Ubuntu. As there have been some questions on other blogs about the process I thought it was worth doing a quick refresher. Each release we ask the community contributors whose images were included in the last release if they’d like to

Canonical
23 March 2012

Canonical
20 February 2012

Sound theme results

Design Ubuntu

First of all, thank you all for your feedback in both the blog post and, most importantly, the survey. Over 2000 surveys were completed, which is amazing. We are really quite overwhelmed with the encouraging feedback received at this stage, so I thought it worth sharing some of the highlights.  Quotes It almost spells out

Canonical
20 February 2012

Canonical
15 February 2012

Sound theme update

Design Ubuntu

Thank you everyone for all your effort, overall it’s an impressive set from such a short deadline! We’ve been busy listening to all your submissions, it’s been a challenge, but the sound samples have been whittled down to a shortlist (of startup sounds only, for now) that we feel meet the pitch brief (or are close

Canonical
15 February 2012

Canonical
7 February 2012

Ubuntu sound theme design

Design Ubuntu

If you’re as keen as we are that the Ubuntu sound theme is on brand, now is your chance! We are calling for pitches for the Ubuntu sound theme! The brief As Ubuntu expands onto new form factors, with an increasingly definitive visual identity and brand, it is important to ensure that the theme of

Canonical
7 February 2012

Canonical
8 July 2011

Get excited and make things! – Wallpaper edition!

Design Ubuntu

Not that long ago Matt Jones of BERG fame came up with a really lovely idea! In response to the keep calm and carry on posters from the Second World War that had become so popular again he decided that a more positive statement was needed! “It occurred to me that this was exactly the

Canonical
8 July 2011

Canonical
13 January 2011

Bright, light and beautiful!

Design Ubuntu

That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some fantastic photography sourced from our Flickr group but this time we’re reserving at least 3 places for non photographic wallpapers, so things that are rendered or drawn. The

Canonical
13 January 2011