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Tabea Rauscher – EMBL Communications

EMBL Communications

Informing, inspiring, and engaging society with EMBL’s research, services and training

As a publicly funded organisation, EMBL has both a responsibility and an interest to feed back on its work by communicating its innovative research programmes and cutting-edge science, and bringing the questions, concerns and responses of the public to the laboratory.

Author: Tabea Rauscher

Tabea Rauscher

The power of the ‘one EMBL’ unified brand

What is the purpose of EMBL’s corporate design, our brand strategy, and the principles that make EMBL a design leader? In the contemporary world, digital landscapes dominate and visual identity plays a pivotal role in an organisation’s identity. A comprehensive and cohesive corporate design…


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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.



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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…


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Design Burst // November 2018

Our team has been very busy with the EMBL corporate design guidelines.These will be shared in spring 2019. So stay tuned!Meanwhile, have a look at our visual output in November 2018.We wish all of you a lovely Christmas time!


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Design Burst // October 2018

This has been another very productive month. As images tell more than words: have a look at our visual output in the last thirty days.For more inspiration and regular updates, follow us on instagram: design_embl.


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Design Burst // September 2018

“Show, don’t tell” has been one of our principles since the first sprint. So we’re going to share some of the 80 or so production requests that we handle every month. All of the visuals below were created in September 2018 based on design requests from various stakeholders from across…


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Adhering to our principles in latest corporate design sprint

Joint blog post by Ed Dadswell and Tabea Rauscher Our latest Corporate Design sprint was intended to bring us closer to our goal: develop prototypes and examples of how the EMBL master brand could be implemented across products. The kick-off meeting made it clear that we should keep our design…



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Improvements on design processes

This blog post is about how my team handles design and production requests and about the new processes, routines and workflows we have put in place. While things are far from perfect, it’s a chance to blow the trumpet for my team and share how we are working.

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