Blog posts tagged
"inspiration"

24 posts

Canonical
10 September 2013

Wednesday App Design Clinic

Design Ubuntu

Since Ubuntu touch was announced, its been fantastic to see the variety of apps you’ve been developing, from shopping lists to word games, to apps that aid your daily commute. As the Ubuntu Touch platform gets bigger and better, myself and the design team have been receiving more requests for feedback on designs, as well

Canonical
10 September 2013

Canonical
19 April 2012

Watch out for Ubuntu! The E-Pebble smartwatch

Design Ubuntu

In the year 2000 IBM showed off the WatchPad, a computer on your wrist, but one perhaps ahead of its time and still needing a little bit of design-love. Of course, we love highlighting beautiful design when it does finally come along, and in the last few days the beautiful Pebble smartwatch has appeared over

Canonical
19 April 2012

Canonical
19 April 2012

Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition

Research Ubuntu

Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and designing the original calligraphy behind the Ubuntu Arabic for the Ubuntu Font Family and from tomorrow you will be able to see that work for yourself. Until

Canonical
19 April 2012

Canonical
16 January 2012

Meeting Prezi

Design Ubuntu

While we were sprinting in Budapest, we had the opportunity to meet the team responsible for such an interesting and inspiring product. We have in fact been lucky enough, thanks to some interesting connections, to be invited at Prezi’s! Of course this only after a hard day of work! 😉 Prezi is a presentation tool

Canonical
16 January 2012

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
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
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
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
7 July 2011

My stickers have arrived!

Design Ubuntu

The stickers I made in my recent blog post have arrived and they’re lovely!

Canonical
7 July 2011

Canonical
4 July 2011

Most northerly Ubuntu fan?

Notes Ubuntu

This week we got a fun update from our traveling team member Ivanka! While passing through Dawson City in northern Canada Ivanka and Nick met Chalsie Warren and she recognised the Ubuntu stickers on their bike! This got me wondering whether we can track down the most extreme users starting with the most northerly Ubuntu

Canonical
4 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
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
1 April 2011

Narwhal spotted at Lambeth Bridge

Article Ubuntu

We always knew Google Maps was good! Google Maps did prove its accuracy; when we looked out of the window from the 27th floor down towards Lambeth Bridge there was indeed a visitor!

Canonical
1 April 2011

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