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Designing on Ubuntu

by Canonical on 18 October 2010

The recent Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase competition produced some good work. Lots of great photos and plenty of interesting music tracks were submitted.But...

This week in design – 15 October 2010

by Canonical on 15 October 2010

It’s out! We did it! YES! Well done everyone. Thanks for your support in helping make this latest release a good one. Our Meerkat is all grown up so what’s...

A space odyssey

by Canonical on 15 October 2010

Time flies and it’s already time for our next blog entry on the design of the Ubuntu font suite. Below my colleague Fabio Haag explains the joys of spacing...

42 day widget

by Canonical on 11 October 2010

Yesterday we successfully released the new versions of Ubuntu family. As you all know, yesterday was such a special date which occurs every 100 years:...

This week in design – 8 October 2010

by Canonical on 8 October 2010

It’s release week! That means that the Millbank London office and home office locations this week are a buzz with activity getting things ready for our big...

The weird and wonderful world of Latin Extended B

by Canonical on 4 October 2010

Below, Amelie Bonet from the Dalton Maag design team shares her thoughts: Latin Extended B is a block (0180-024F) within the Unicode standard. With its...

New t-shirts

by Marcus Haslam on 1 October 2010

The new Maverick Meerkat and Natty Narwhal t-shirt delivery came in this morning, looking tip top I have to say. Check out the MM on the shop site in mens and...

Ubuntu emoticons

by Canonical on 1 October 2010

“Say hello to my little friends…” I’ve just completed a set of emoticons that more closely follow our visual identity to replace the defaults on the Canonical...

This week in design – 1 October 2010

by Canonical on 1 October 2010

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...

29 days later

by Inayaili de León Persson on 29 September 2010

It’s been 29 days since I’ve started working at Canonical and, let me tell you, they went by really fast. In the past few weeks I have worked on lots of...

Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type

by Mark Shuttleworth on 28 September 2010

The Ubuntu font represents the values of Ubuntu and Canonical, distilled into a typeface that is highly legible on screen, clean and balanced in print,...

Intial Hebrew trials

by Canonical on 23 September 2010

The Ubuntu project is going full speed. We have started intial work on the Hebrew and would like to share a few thoughts with you. This PDF illustrates how we...