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 [...]

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 [...]

10-20 shortcuts student designers need to know about!

We’re often being asked how we manage to get through so much work and cope with tricky time-scales on our projects. Alongside having an experienced team we also have many processes and systems to help support us in efficient and consistent product in methodologies. No matter how experienced we are, we are constantly learning new [...]

BookMachine CAMPUS: Photo research tips for success: Making the most of media

BookMachine’s 2022 Autumn CAMPUS courses have been released and one of our Art Buyer’s, Lucy has become a BookMachine CAMPUS course tutor! BookMachine CAMPUS is BookMachine’s library of industry-specific visual courses for publishing professionals, who want to gather new, or brush up on their existing skills. The courses are less than an hour in length [...]

Meet Kori – our newest Graduate Junior Designer

In September we launched our second round of our 2022 Graduate Designer Recruitment programme. Over the years we have found it to be one of the best ways to grow as a company and we are so immensely privileged that so many of our fantastic team have progressed with us from their first graduate roles [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Skills development is a key element of emc’s success

Staying sharp - twice a day the Publishing Services team takes time to stretch At emc design we’re constantly striving to develop our skills and increase our knowledge in order to offer an even better service to our clients. In fact, continuous improvement is one of our core values, and regularly making enhancements [...]

The first emc ‘wayzgoose’

This week saw our first ‘wayzgoose’, and we know what you’re thinking… “the first emc what? بلاك جاك ” Historically, a wayzgoose was an annual event held by the masters of printing houses to mark the end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Thankfully we no longer have to [...]