--- title: This week in design – 30 July 2010 description: This week we’ve been to GUADEC, researched Shotwell and released an update to the new font! And it’s nearly the end of July?! When did that happen?! […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/this-week-in-design-30-july-2010?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 30 July 2010 # This week in design – 30 July 2010 [Design](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design) --- Share the article It’s nearly August everyone! Well done, everyone still here? Fantastic! Welcome to GUADEC Busy ‘ol week here in the design team. For starters Charline, Ivanka, David and Matthew all went to [GUADEC](http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/index). Ivanka blogged about her [two](http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/guadec-day-1/) [days](http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/guadec-day-2-in-pursuit-of-critical-mass/) in attendance and we’d encourage you to catch up with other attendees to get their take on it. You’ll also no doubt have seen that we’ve updated the beta test of the Ubuntu font which now includes our snazzy bold font! We hope those of you with access like it a lot and remember you can feed back to us via the [launchpad project](https://launchpad.net/ubuntufontbetatesting). **Desktop** On the desktop we’ve come back from very successful sprints to review progress to date and are pleased to report that Maverick is really starting to take shape. Alpha 3 is only a week away and before you know it we’ll be at Beta which is why we’re starting to get excited about free culture again! As part of Maverick we would like to include updates to the free culture showcase. You can find out more about getting involved on the [Ubuntu wiki page](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase) created for the project. [Beta](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule) is a month away so get cracking on your [photo](http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/), [music](http://soundcloud.com/groups/ubuntu-free-culture-showcase/info) and [video](http://vimeo.com/groups/ubuntufreecultureshowcase/) submissions. **Research** We’re pushing our research forward with a look at [Shotwell](http://yorba.org/shotwell/) this week. Stay tuned for a write up of the results coming soon! **Guidelines** We’ve also updated the guidelines in the last week. More will follow as we plan out the next steps for rolling out the new identity across a range of websites. This is also an area where you can help all Ubuntu users. If you see an old logo or something out of date on a blog, user group or website contact the organisers and encourage them to visit the [toolkit section](http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/) of this very blog to get the assets that they need to update it. [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Challenges designers face in open source (and how to fix them)](https://canonical.com/blog/challenges-designers-face-in-open-source-and-how-to-fix-them) Open source powers up to 90% of modern software, yet many projects lack usability. Canonical’s Design team surveyed 115 cross-functional professionals to uncover the 4 core... [Kola Ojoodide](https://canonical.com/blog/author/kola-ojoodide) 26 June 2026 [### Why web engineering is great](https://canonical.com/blog/why-web-engineering-is-great) Hi, I’m Johann! I’m an engineering manager in Canonical’s web team. For the larger part of my 15 years of work experience as engineer, I’ve been working in web development.... [Johann Wolf](https://canonical.com/blog/author/johannwolf) 27 April 2026 [### Canonical’s recipe for High Performance Computing](https://canonical.com/blog/canonicals-recipe-for-high-performance-computing) In essence, High Performance Computing (HPC) is quite simple. Speed and scale. In practice, the concept is quite complex and hard to achieve. It is not dissimilar to what... [Igor Ljubuncic](https://canonical.com/blog/author/igorljubuncic) 24 January 2024 [### Web team – hack week 2023](https://canonical.com/blog/web-team-hack-week-2023) Today, around 96% of software projects utilize open source in some way. The web team here at Canonical is passionate about Open source. We lead with an open-by-default approach... [Anthony Dillon](https://canonical.com/blog/author/ya-bo-ng) 25 October 2023