Post Your Artwork Submissions And Concepts For Ubuntu 10.04

As with every release of Ubuntu (..., Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic), there's a wiki page for incoming artwork submissions and concepts (themes, icons, etc.). On the wiki you can post your artwork submissions and concepts for the Ubuntu release planned for April, 2010, nicknamed Lucid Lynx. The first submission has already been made to the Lucid Lynx artwork wiki.

During the Karmic cycle, you could submit background and wallpaper suggestions both on the wiki and on Flickr. This was the first time Flickr was used as a supplement to the wiki. It was a huge success with over 2000 submissions! With the restriction of disk space, only 19 of the fabulous wallpapers made it onto the final Ubuntu 9.10 CD. If your favourite isn’t on the CD it will be made available as a separate package!

For Lucid Lynx no wallpapers can be submited on the wiki to avoid having submissions in two separate places. You must join the Flickr Ubuntu Artwork group if you would like to offer Wallpapers for Ubuntu.
Because there's shortcomings to both using the wiki or Flickr, there has been thoughts about creating a special site for artwork submissions. The discussion also brought up the question of how to make it easier for people to select wallpapers directly from the pool.

Third Look&Feel Proposal For Boot And GDM Theme

As a followup on my post Proposed look-and-feel for boot and gdm theme, I just wanted to let you know that a third proposal has been uploaded. At a first glance it looks like only the color was changed. When you look closely you'll see the small enhancements like glow, borders, etc. the Canonical artteam has changed since the first demo.

Besides the small changes in the details, I think Canonical will stick with this design without any radically changes. I've really got nothing against brown, but this third demo is really brown, but honestly I was hoping for some more colorful proposal. I even submitted a few mockups to the Karmic Boot Experience wiki. So, I guess the best way to express my assessment can be summed up with one sentence: "close but no cigar".

View all the Canonical's mockups for this third demo here:
Ubuntu Karmic boot demo and proposed GDM theme – Iteration 3