New banner for It’s Alive in the Lab blog

If you are reading this in a web browser as compared to RSS, you can see that It’s Alive in the Lab has a new banner.

My old banner featured large black letters on a multicolored background that looked like:

Its_alive_in_the_lab_2017_v2

Then I used this Autodesk University (AU) corporate image:

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to create a new one in conjunction with the Artifakt Element font (Autodesk’s official corporate font):

Its_alive_in_the_lab_2018_v1

As part of work that I am doing in relation to Corporate Strategy, Technology Lead for Employee Communications, Carl Reeverts, created a banner image for our internal employee information site:

Autodesk Strategy Site

I liked what Carl had done, so I asked him for a copy of his backdrop image. I then replaced the AU corporate background with Carl’s to get:

Its_alive_in_the_lab_2018_v2

Unsure which was better, gray or orange, I enlisted the help of my Facebook friends who voted:

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Some (15%) thought that the gray looked calming, professional, and was easier to read, but more (85%) preferred the orange that was fun and exciting.

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