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The future of books?

by Canonical on 22 September 2010

Check out these lovely ebook touchscreen concepts from IDEO. The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Did you know?

by Canonical on 21 September 2010

An introduction to the magical world of Application Screenshots and how to improve the images displayed in Ubuntu’s software catalog.

This week in design – 17 September 2010

by Canonical on 17 September 2010

Photo by Ralph courtesy of Flickr Normally we spend a lot of time thinking about how to work on things in a an open way. This week the big news was all about...

It’s all about Greek

by Canonical on 15 September 2010

We are familiar with the Latin alphabet; we are used to seeing it’s forms and shapes and we read it without thinking. When we design Latin fonts, we can rely...

Getting physical

by Canonical on 14 September 2010

Introduction With the ingress in the market of products like Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone and Microsoft Kinect, developers finally started realizing that there...

Screens everywhere

by Canonical on 13 September 2010

This is a fabulous little invention especially as I’m a keen cyclist in the city.Nicked from Steve Clayton’s fabulous blog.

This week in design – 10 September 2010

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

I don’t want to sound like a broken record but “PHEW! What a week”. Next Thursday will be our final freeze for Maverick. After this point it’s full steam...

Which way to slant the Hebrew

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

Here is a design conundrum: which way to lean the Hebrew Italic design. Logic, and probably common sense, would dictate that it should slant in the reading...

Third update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

Still Andrea Cimitan, still good news for you 🙂 This is a small blog post to list few of the changes we did to light-themes: Menuitem speedup, hurray!!! 😀...

dConstruct 2010

by Inayaili de León Persson on 10 September 2010

Once again Brighton-based Clearleft prepared something special for those who attended this year’s dConstruct conference. Ivanka and myself had the pleasure to...

Charactersets

by Canonical on 9 September 2010

In this latest post discussing development of the Ubuntu family of fonts, Bruno discusses scope, charactersets and what’s coming as part of the Ubuntu...

Allow me to introduce myself…

by Inayaili de León Persson on 9 September 2010

My name’s Inayaili (most people call me either Yaili or Lily though) and I’m the new web designer in the Canonical’s design team — just started last Tuesday....