Why design matters: Collaborating with your designers

We’re celebrating our 25th anniversary with a special BookMachine birthday party on Wednesday 10th February, at The Square Pig & Pen, Central London. With the event just around the corner, we thought we would give you a few pointers to get you thinking "Why Design Matters" which was originally posted on BookMachine's blog last week. For many, design can be [...]

25 Quick Keyboard Shortcuts

As an ever busy design studio it is vital that we work in the most efficient way possible to meet our deadlines. Whether it be starting out on a new job in the sample design stage, text formatting and typesetting a manuscript, styling realia or getting the finished article ready for press, we always ensure [...]

An afternoon with Hugh Dellar from Lexical Labs

Author and materials writer, Hugh Dellar, visited all of us here at emc this week to give us an ELT workshop. The idea of the workshop was for emc folk to gain more of an insight into the materials that we work on and to help us understand more about how they are used in the classroom [...]

Interested in joining our team? Come to our open day…

With lots of exciting plans and projects booked in this year we are looking to grow our team of designers, production editors and art buyers. سلوتس Recruiting is one of our biggest challenges; finding the right people, with the right skills and the right attitude is difficult. We can’t always tell from just looking at [...]

You’re invited to our 25th birthday party

We’re celebrating our 25th with a special BookMachine birthday party on Wednesday 10th February, at The Square Pig & Pen, Central London. For this special birthday edition, we’re asking “Why Design Matters: Collaborating with your design team” and have invited three speakers to help look at the role of design within the publishing industry. Our speakers include: David Pearson [...]

Meet Katie: our newest designer

Meet Katie our newest designer, who joined us back in October after graduating from Uni.  How are you finding emc so far? I’m really enjoying ‘job life’ and just being in a routine again. I feel like I fit in here at EMC design... “We’re all mad here” - Alice in Wonderland. I’ve learnt so much [...]

Our 2015 Christmas card is here!

Our 2015 Christmas Card is finally here! This year we went through several ideas and designs but we managed to finalise it down to three, just in time for printing. Yippee! The theme this year was based on winter scenes from our local surroundings with each card featuring a different photo of the beautiful countryside we work in, taken by our very [...]

Where does a design agency fit into publishing? We explore this as part of the PA's #workinpublishing week

This week we're getting involved with the Publishers Association's campaign #workinpublishing week. The PA are running a host of events to help highlight the variety of jobs within the publishing sector and are asking people who work within the industry to share their top tips and guidance for potential new recruits into the industry. So [...]

News Flash: New position available for Graduate Junior Designer

We are now looking for junior designers to join our team again! quanox en bebes With lots of new and exciting projects, we’re looking for more hard-working, skilled and enthusiastic people to come and join our growing team. ivermectin nobel prize for medicine  If you are a recent graduate with a degree or HND in graphic design [...]

The benefits of in-house Creative Content – why picture researchers need designers

In our previous posts about using stock images in ELT materials, we discussed how to make the most of picture research, giving away some of our (not-so-secret) secrets. Here at emc, we’re lucky to have a dedicated, in-house Creative Content team who work closely with our designers to ensure that the research we do not [...]