Blog posts tagged
"illustration"

14 posts

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
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

Canonical
15 August 2011

Ubuntu Arabic, in print!

Research Ubuntu

A beta of Ubuntu Font Family Arabic, in print as part of the testing and debugging process for the Arabic coverage.The magazine is an intriguing tri-lingual production published by the Cultural Office of Saudi Arabia in Germany … German and English articles using Latin script at one cover and Arabic from the other.

Canonical
15 August 2011

Canonical
13 July 2011

Ubuntu Orange is #dd4814

Article Ubuntu

Say it loud and say it proud! #dd4814 is the Ubuntu Orange and we want the world to know about it!

Canonical
13 July 2011

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
30 June 2011

What’s round and sticky and how you can make some!

Design Ubuntu

Some of you out there may have already seen that funky print shop MOO.com just launched a new product, round stickers. This means that you can now upload round images and make lovely bespoke stickers in a pack of 52. Full disclosure before I start to say that I used to work at MOO.com which

Canonical
30 June 2011

Canonical
28 June 2011

Ubuntu Billboards: Design on a Grand Scale

Design Ubuntu

It’s been five years since people spotted the last Ubuntu billboards in the wild. This time Mauricio Pretto sent a set of photographs of driving between the airport in Porto Alegre, Brazil and the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (International Free Software Forum) venue where Canonical and Ubuntu have a stand for FISL 2011:

Canonical
28 June 2011

Canonical
31 May 2011

Celebrate Ubuntu!

Design Ubuntu

At UDS in Budapest we held a session on the idea of a toolkit for community members. It would allow anyone excited enough to show off and celebrate their use and love of Ubuntu. As you can see from the notes there were a lot of ideas and one of the first activities was to

Canonical
31 May 2011

Canonical
26 January 2011

The Natty Wallpaper contest – an important update!

Article Ubuntu

Two weeks into our wallpaper contest we’re seeing lots of really interesting entries for the photographic part. As those of you who read the previous post about the contest will know we’re also reserving at least three places this release for non photographic wallpapers. The plan _was_ to use another site to manage...

Canonical
26 January 2011

Canonical
1 October 2010

This week in design – 1 October 2010

Design Ubuntu

It’s _almost_ there. Happy “so close to release I can almost taste the Ubuntinis” Day everyone! And if you’ve not tried an Ubuntini, well you should. The next release of Ubuntu releases on the 10th October but the release candidate is out there now and as I write this the final release meeting of the

Canonical
1 October 2010

Canonical
8 June 2010

Well worth ten minutes of your time…

Design Ubuntu

An illustration supporting a talk by Dan Pink about the hidden truths behind what really motivates us.

Canonical
8 June 2010

Canonical
14 April 2010

My image of the day

Notes Ubuntu

An example of Gemma Correll’s work.

Canonical
14 April 2010