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, [...]

Our climate change pledge

As individuals and as a company we have watched and read countless documentaries and articles on the devastating affects climate change is having on our world. Our planet is beautifully made, perfectly balanced with ecosystems that are intended to support and help life thrive. Humans, animals and plants have lived in harmony on our earth [...]

5 Adobe Illustrator tips to make your graphics standout

In this final installment in our ‘Adobe tips and tricks’ series, we’d like to share our five favourite tips for working in Illustrator. This vector graphics software is widely used by us to create high-quality realia, illustrations and infographics for a variety of products. Top 5 Illustrator tips: Use the offset path tool to create [...]

5 Adobe Photoshop tips to make your images more pro

5 Adobe Photoshop tips to make your images more pro In our last post, we shared our top tips to try when using Adobe InDesign – we hope you liked them! Today, we’re sharing our five favourite tips for Adobe Photoshop. At EMC, we pride ourselves on realistic and effective use of Photoshop [...]

5 Adobe InDesign tips to make your layouts more efficient

5 tips for efficient layouts in InDesign Here at emc design, our team of designers are Adobe experts! We work primarily with InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to create our high-quality print and digital designs and have gained a considerable amount of combined experience using Adobe software. Along the way, we’ve picked up some [...]

Why creative assets matter: BookMachine’s final Unplugged event of 2020

It's true what they say, illustrations and images really can make or break a publication. No matter how great the typography is or how beautifully written the words are, if the creative assets don't deliver you will only have half a product! On Wednesday 11th November join me (Sophie) and an amazing panellist of speakers [...]

Join EMC Design at the IPG’s Virtual Autumn Conference

We are really excited to be exhibiting at the IPG's Virtual Autumn Conference next Wednesday 21st October. It will be a first for us both in terms of exhibiting with our own booth but also it being a virtual one. So please do come and say hello! We'd love to chat with you to see [...]

By |2020-10-14T13:14:27+01:00October 14th, 2020|Categories: Design, Educational Publishing, Events, Publishing|0 Comments

Join our team [Designers & Production Editors]

We are recruiting designers and Production Editors to join our design agency team here in Bedford. We are passionate about what we do and have built up an unrivalled reputation for providing the best editorial design for some of the world’s most well-known educational publishers. Production Editor This is a really exciting opportunity for an [...]

By |2020-02-06T17:40:13+01:00February 6th, 2020|Categories: Design, Educational Publishing, Jobs, Publishing Services, Updates|0 Comments