diff --git a/core/banners/000-banner.txt b/core/banners/000-banner.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5016edeb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/banners/000-banner.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Welcome to
+███████╗██████╗**█████╗**██████╗███████╗███╗***███╗*█████╗**██████╗███████╗ B
+██╔════╝██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔════╝████╗*████║██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔════╝ E
+███████╗██████╔╝███████║██║*****█████╗**██╔████╔██║███████║██║*****███████╗ T
+╚════██║██╔═══╝*██╔══██║██║*****██╔══╝**██║╚██╔╝██║██╔══██║██║*****╚════██║ A
+███████║██║*****██║**██║╚██████╗███████╗██║*╚═╝*██║██║**██║╚██████╗███████║
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diff --git a/core/banners/001-banner.txt b/core/banners/001-banner.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..842f7b64d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/banners/001-banner.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+  ┏━━━┓
+  ┃┏━┓┃ Welcome to
+  ┃┗━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏┓┏┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓╋╋╋╋┏━━┓ b
+  ┗━━┓┃┏━━┓┃┏┓┃┏━━┓┃┏┓┃┏━━┓┃┏━┛┏━━┓┃┃━┫┏━━┓┃┗┛┃┏━━┓┃┏┓┃┏━━┓┃┏━┛┏━━┓┃━━┫ e
+  ┃┗━┛┃┗━━┛┃┗┛┃┗━━┛┃┏┓┃┗━━┛┃┗━┓┗━━┛┃┃━┫┗━━┛┃┃┃┃┗━━┛┃┏┓┃┗━━┛┃┗━┓┗━━┛┣━━┃ t
+  ┗━━━┛╋╋╋╋┃┏━┛╋╋╋╋┗┛┗┛╋╋╋╋┗━━┛╋╋╋╋┗━━┛╋╋╋╋┗┻┻┛╋╋╋╋┗┛┗┛╋╋╋╋┗━━┛╋╋╋╋┗━━┛ a
+  ╋╋╋╋╋╋╋╋╋┃┃[The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs+Vim]
+  ╋╋╋╋╋╋╋╋╋┗┛
diff --git a/core/banner.txt b/core/banners/002-banner.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from core/banner.txt
rename to core/banners/002-banner.txt
diff --git a/core/configuration-layer.el b/core/configuration-layer.el
index 1f5de58aa..fdefad136 100644
--- a/core/configuration-layer.el
+++ b/core/configuration-layer.el
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 (require 'dotspacemacs)
 (require 'ht)
 
+(defconst configuration-layer-template-directory
+  (expand-file-name (concat spacemacs-core-directory "templates/"))
+  "Configuration layer templates directory.")
+
 (defconst configuration-layer-contrib-directory
   (expand-file-name (concat user-emacs-directory "contrib/"))
   "Spacemacs contribution layers base directory.")
@@ -91,7 +95,7 @@ NAME."
 
 (defun configuration-layer//copy-template (template)
   "Copy and replace special values of TEMPLATE to LAYER_DIR."
-  (let ((src (concat spacemacs-template-directory
+  (let ((src (concat configuration-layer-template-directory
                      (format "%s.template" template)))
         (dest (concat (configuration-layer//get-private-layer-dir name)
                       (format "%s.el" template))))
diff --git a/core/dotspacemacs.el b/core/dotspacemacs.el
index 173e137b9..2138f964c 100644
--- a/core/dotspacemacs.el
+++ b/core/dotspacemacs.el
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
+(defconst dotspacemacs-template-directory
+  (expand-file-name (concat spacemacs-core-directory "templates/"))
+  "Templates directory.")
+
 (defvar dotspacemacs-configuration-layer-path '()
   "List of additional paths where to look for configuration layers.
 Paths must have a trailing slash (ie. `~/.mycontribs/')"
-)
+  )
 
 (defvar dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '()
   "list of contribution to load."
@@ -73,7 +77,7 @@ before installing the file if the destination already exists."
                                         dotfile))
                     t)))
     (when install
-      (copy-file (concat spacemacs-template-directory
+      (copy-file (concat dotspacemacs-template-directory
                          ".spacemacs.template") dotfile t)
       (message "%s has been installed." dotfile))))
 
diff --git a/core/spacemacs-mode.el b/core/spacemacs-mode.el
index 61be6ada2..121f0588c 100644
--- a/core/spacemacs-mode.el
+++ b/core/spacemacs-mode.el
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
   "Spacemacs core directory.")
 (add-to-list 'load-path spacemacs-core-directory)
 
-(defconst spacemacs-template-directory
-  (expand-file-name (concat spacemacs-core-directory "templates/"))
-  "Spacemacs templates directory.")
+(defconst spacemacs-banner-directory
+  (expand-file-name (concat spacemacs-core-directory "banners/"))
+  "Spacemacs banners directory.")
 
 ;; additional paths
 (defconst user-home-directory
@@ -95,9 +95,7 @@
         (`w32 (spacemacs/set-font font 9))
         (other (spacemacs/set-font font 10)))))
   ;; banner
-  (let ((buffer-read-only nil))
-    (insert-file-contents (concat spacemacs-core-directory "banner.txt"))
-    (spacemacs/insert-buttons))
+  (spacemacs//insert-banner)
   ;; bind-key is required by use-package
   (spacemacs/load-or-install-package 'bind-key t)
   (spacemacs/load-or-install-package 'use-package t)
@@ -161,6 +159,18 @@ If LOG is non-nil a message is displayed in spacemacs-mode buffer."
     (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist (cons 'font fontstr))
     (set-default-font fontstr)))
 
+(defun spacemacs//insert-banner ()
+  "Choose a banner and insert in spacemacs buffer."
+  (let* ((files (directory-files spacemacs-banner-directory nil nil 'nosort))
+         (count (length files))
+         ;; -2 to remove `.' `..'
+         (choice (random (- count 2)))
+         (banner (format "%03d-banner.txt" choice))
+         (buffer-read-only nil))
+    (message "%s" count)
+    (insert-file-contents (concat spacemacs-banner-directory banner))
+    (spacemacs/insert-buttons)))
+
 (defun spacemacs/message (msg &rest args)
   "Display MSG in message prepended with '(Spacemacs)'."
   (message "(Spacemacs) %s" (apply 'format msg args)))