A while back I wrote about some of the best early pieces of artwork for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. Any Ubuntu fans will surely be interested to know what has happened since then, so here is an updated top 5 favorite pieces of artwork proposed for Intrepid.

1. This theme takes out many of the browns that people complain about while keeping the basic orange-y color that distinguishes Ubuntu. Additionally, it adds black highlights, in the form of panels, and has an attractive placement of the Ubuntu logo.
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2. While this theme does not appear to fit the Ubuntu color scheme very well as is, with a good orange background, it could fit in quite well. While bits of it (mostly the browser part) look at little bit Mac-ish, those parts are subtle and the overall theme looks great.
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3. While it changes the standard colors slightly, this background provides a simple gradient across most of it, with an Ibex decoration in the corner. After Hardy Heron, I am a big fan of including the animal the release is named after into the design, which this wall paper does very well.
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4. While Ubuntu’s startup process is fine right now, adding an artistic touch would really make it stand out. Several ideas have been proposed (see Wiki link), but this is the most creative of them.
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5. This sort of modern and clean login screen might work well with theme #2 (see above). Although I am not sure that I like the background or that exact color of yellow, this concept shows promise, particularly if it were integrated somehow with some of the developments in the login screen world.
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