Following our appearance on the Sustain FOSS podcast, Heiko Tietze from The Document Foundation talked on the sister Sustain Design podcast about mentoring designers in the LibreOffice project, and other UI/UX topics.
Category: Design
LibreOffice Conference 2021: Announcing the logo!
In late June, we started a competition to design the logo for our upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2021. We received 22 submissions with many great ideas – thanks to everyone who took part!
The conference organisers examined every design and ranked them, and today we’re announcing the winner, which is created by Alan Ward. Here’s how it looks:
Alan also provided a simplified monochrome version which can be used on merchandise – stay tuned to this blog for more on that.…
LibreOffice Design Community Work in 2020
Design has been one of the major focus points of LibreOffice in the last few years, and has produced new icon sets and a number of incremental updates to the user interface – menus, toolbars and the SideBar – and the creation of the brand new NotebookBar…
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version will be posted here on the blog soon.)…
LibreOffice 7.0 branding: Blender 3D model
LibreOffice 7.0, released in August 2020, includes new branding elements for the splash screen and other places, thanks Bayu Rizaldhan Rayes and the Design team. Now Barbara Tostes has made a 3D model for use in Blender, so if you want to make a video or animation about LibreOffice, check it out!
And indeed, if you make any kind of video or tutorial and want us to spread the word, join our marketing mailing list or Telegram channel and say hello.…
LibreOffice Impress Template Contest by the Indonesian Community
Ahmad Haris writes:
…Last month, LibreOffice Indonesia held an Impress Template Contest and today we announced the results. There are several items for prizes, such as ARM Mini PC and shoes, sponsored by FANS Shoes Factory.
The main goal of this contest is to get more people active in the community, design good Impress templates, and if possible, change the old default templates with the new ones.
Build your skills – join our online hackfest during the LibreOffice conference!
Who makes LibreOffice? How can you – as a user – get involved in the community? And what can you contribute to the project? Well, we’ll answer all of these questions, and more, in an upcoming online “hackfest” during the LibreOffice conference. This is a virtual event where the world’s foremost LibreOffice experts will be at hand, to answer your questions about contributing to the project.…