Accelerating one EMBL.org
On 4 December 2020 the new EMBL.org received a package of major refinement. Driven by stakeholder desire for a shorter version of the page, the outcome is greater focus on EMBL’s mission areas.
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10 benefits of EMBL’s WordPress microsites
In the past two years, digital and design teams in EMBL’s Communications group have been collaborating closely with the IT team in Heidelberg and the Web Development team at EBI to customise WordPress platform and to meet EMBL’s look, feel and requirements.
Embl.org: From so simple a beginning…
Today, we have reached an important milestone for the project: we can present to you the first page. That’s right. Just one, single, webpage.
The Visual Framework 2.0: Web developer outreach at EMBL-EBI Day 2019
In the Digital Team we continue to make progress towards a beta release of the Visual Framework 2.0 for more flexible and scalable tools for life science websites.
On Book Making
Hi, I’m Sarah, a design trainee from Australia who has been on the EMBL design team for 7 months now. For the past few months i’ve been working on the EMBL Teenager activity book. This book is just one example of the variety of projects the design team takes on. Creating something from…
Design Burst // February 2019
The Design team are happy to share the visual output from February. We would like to use this post to thank all our colleagues and stakeholders for the great collaboration, input and support on various projects and all kinds of different communications channels.
Design Burst // January 2019
The Design Team started busy into this new year. Enjoy our visual burst with art work our team created in the last four weeks.
Science and Design
Hello! I’m Roberto, a graphic design intern from Finland who is about to complete his six-month internship at EMBL Heidelberg. I started at EMBL in August 2018. As a graphic design intern at EMBL, I worked in the Strategy and Communications department. I have had the pleasure to work with a very…
Update on our typeface choice: IBM Plex
Earlier last year I documented how we approached selecting a new typeface for EMBL. We’ve come pretty far with testing and would like to thank our digital team as well as the web development team at EMBL-EBI for their feedback. During the intense testing phase, we realised that Fira had some…
Introducing the Digital Projects Dashboard
After a relaxing end-of-year break, the digital team is back in Heidelberg and raring to get started on our many projects. This week we built a dashboard to help us to keep track of the scope, status and dependencies of our nearly two-dozen projects.