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The Power of Icons: A Visual Language for the Digital Age

Icons, stemming from the Greek word "eikōn," meaning "image," are one of the most used graphic elements in our digital age, but their significance can be traced back to the earliest human civilisations. Humans have been conveying messages using symbols and pictures for over 40,000 years, predating the emergence of any written language. Pictorial symbols [...]

By |2023-10-18T12:32:52+01:00October 18th, 2023|Categories: Design, Uncategorized|0 Comments

A Warm Welcome To Our New Designers

It's hard to wrap our heads around the fact that September is nearly coming to an end already. This year has brought significant changes and achievements for our team at emc design. We relocated to a new office, or more accurately, returned to our cherished Grade 2 listed building – our beloved barn. Alongside this [...]

Join emc design as a Junior Designer

As we pass the midpoint of the year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on our progress so far and anticipate what lies ahead for us. 2023 has been an incredibly exciting year so far for emc design. If you've been keeping up with us, you're likely aware that we recently relocated to [...]

Exciting news – EMC Design has relocated!

We are thrilled to announce a major update: emc design has successfully relocated! For those who have been following our journey, you may have already noticed that we have returned to our beloved barn, a stunning grade 2 listed building nestled in the picturesque countryside of Bedfordshire. You might be curious about the reasons behind [...]

Revolutionising Learning and Development: The Power of Micro-Learning in the Age of Information Overload

In today's digital age, our brains are under siege from an overwhelming deluge of information. From the moment we open our eyes in the morning to the time we close them at night, we are relentlessly bombarded with a never-ending stream of facts, pseudo-facts, jibber-jabber, and rumours, all masquerading as information. Our trusty smartphones have [...]

Hot topics from the ELT Freelancers’ Awayday 2022

EMC Design at the ELT Away Day ELT 2022 Last month our Publishing Services Manager, Kathryn Mitchell, and two of our Production Editors, Sarah Hemfrey and Alicia Martiello, attended the ELT Freelancers’ Awayday based at the VOCO® Oxford Spires Hotel. The event was sponsored by Oxford University Press and delegates included freelancers, publishers, media [...]

Meet Niamh – our newest Graduate Junior Designer

Earlier this summer we launched the first round of our 2022 Graduate Designer Recruitment programme. Our culture is to nurture and develop new industry talent by training graduates in all we do. Over the years we have found it to be one of the best ways to grow as a company and we are so [...]

We’re hiring more designers!

This year we want to help more organisations transform even more content that has the power to educate and inspire learners around the world. As a result of a number of new opportunities we need to recruit more amazing people to our team of designers. We are looking for Graduate designers, who have yet to [...]

By |2022-05-17T11:12:46+01:00May 17th, 2022|Categories: Design, Educational Publishing, ELT, Graduate Scheme, Jobs|0 Comments

EMC becomes Carbon Negative – an update on our climate change pledge

This time last year we shared this post on our climate change pledge as a way to hold us accountable for our progress. And on Friday last week (22nd April) as the world celebrated Earth Day emc design was issued with our Carbon Neutral certification from Carbon Neutral Britain. One small part of our climate [...]

Applications close next week for our Graduate Design Scheme

Create your future with EMC Design's graduate design scheme Earlier this month we were really excited to open up applications again for our renowned Graduate Design Scheme. Our culture is to nurture and develop new designers who have been taught the fundamental basics of good design at undergraduate level, including typography, information design, [...]