Web engineering and design team

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The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the bounderies of the web.

Get excited and make things! – Wallpaper edition!

by Canonical on 8 July 2011

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...

My stickers have arrived!

by Canonical on 7 July 2011

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

Overlay Scrollbars – Update

by Canonical on 5 July 2011

When we introduced the new overlay scrollbars we knew it was a bold decision and we were expecting some critics because of the use cases we didn’t support. As...

Most northerly Ubuntu fan?

by Canonical on 4 July 2011

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...

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

by Canonical on 30 June 2011

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...

Ubuntu Billboards: Design on a Grand Scale

by Canonical on 28 June 2011

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...

Kashmiri Arabic script – questions, questions…

by Canonical on 23 June 2011

We are now putting the two complex scripts Hebrew and Arabic together. Although the basic design of the Arabic was finalised some months ago we have been...

Sharing Ubuntu with the world

by Inayaili de León Persson on 17 June 2011

We all know Ubuntu is great, but we want even more people to know just how great. With this in mind, we thought we’d give the visitors of ubuntu.com the tools...

Celebrate Ubuntu!

by Canonical on 31 May 2011

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...

Ivanka, quo vadis?

by Canonical on 25 May 2011

On the 1st of June 2011 I will be departing these shores on an extended honeymoon with my husband of almost 3 months! I am taking what I believe is officially...

Here we go again!

by Canonical on 18 May 2011

Every 6 months the Ubuntu journey starts anew. Those of us entering yet another cycle assume that this all makes sense to the outside world but I like to post...

A fresh new look for Ubuntu.com

by Inayaili de León Persson on 28 April 2011

Natty Narwhal isn’t the only thing new today in Ubuntu. Along with it, and as you may have already noticed, we have updated some areas of the Ubuntu website,...