--- title: Blog posts tagged "illustration" description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/illustration?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged "illustration" #### [Juju: a logo with a story](https://canonical.com/blog/juju-logo) 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 --- Company #### [“When Humans make stuff, we tend to make interesting things.”](https://canonical.com/blog/when-humans-make-stuff-we-tend-to-make-interesting-things) 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 --- Company #### [Picturing the end of the road for another cycle](https://canonical.com/blog/picturing-the-end-of-the-road-for-another-cycle) 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 --- Company #### [History of the Alphabet (Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic)](https://canonical.com/blog/alphabet-development) 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 continuing to the --- Company #### [Ubuntu Arabic, in print!](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-arabic-in-print) 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. --- Company #### [Ubuntu Orange is #dd4814](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-orange-is-dd4814) Say it loud and say it proud! #dd4814 is the Ubuntu Orange and we want the world to know about it! --- Company #### [Get excited and make things! – Wallpaper edition!](https://canonical.com/blog/get-excited-and-make-things-wallpaper-edition) 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 --- Company #### [What’s round and sticky and how you can make some!](https://canonical.com/blog/whats-round-and-sticky-and-how-you-can-make-some) 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 --- Company #### [Ubuntu Billboards: Design on a Grand Scale](https://canonical.com/blog/fisl-billboards) 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: --- Company #### [Celebrate Ubuntu!](https://canonical.com/blog/celebrate-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 --- Company #### [The Natty Wallpaper contest – an important update!](https://canonical.com/blog/the-natty-wallpaper-contest-an-important-update) 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 these entries. --- Company #### [This week in design – 1 October 2010](https://canonical.com/blog/this-week-in-design-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 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 --- Company #### [Well worth ten minutes of your time…](https://canonical.com/blog/well-worth-ten-minutes-of-your-time) An illustration supporting a talk by Dan Pink about the hidden truths behind what really motivates us. --- Company #### [My image of the day](https://canonical.com/blog/my-image-of-the-day) An example of Gemma Correll’s work. --- Company