Meet Michael: our new art buyer

We’d like you to meet Michael, our new Art Buyer who started with us at the beginning of December. Michael, who has a wealth of experience from his time at the RSPB’s head office as well as his own photography expertise, joined our busy Creative Content team to help us continue to source beautiful photos, artwork and media for [...]

Meet Lucy: our new assistant art buyer

Meet Lucy our new assistant art buyer, who joined us back in November after graduating from Uni. How are you finding emc so far? 
So good! Everyone is so nice and friendly and I love being part of a team. I'm finding the job really interesting and I feel like I've learnt so much in the short time I've been here. [...]

Putting the image first in ELT material development – interview with author Ceri Jones

During this year's IATEFL conference one of the big themes that stood out for us was the prominence image and video were given, as part of the teaching process but also the creation of ELT materials – finally we say! Where once the image on the page was more of an after-thought, briefed once the main [...]

A window into our world

Way back in May last year we took the big decision to move into new premises as we had outgrown our old studio at the Barn. Whilst we settled in quickly (we had to really as we were incredibly busy) we still needed to do quite a bit of work to create the design studio [...]

A look at Getty's Lean In Collection

On November 6th 2014, a few of us from emc design attended the BookMachine event held in London with guest speaker Rebecca Swift. It was an informal event and an opportunity to meet, socialise and network with other people from within the publishing industry, including designers, editors, writers, publishers and general book lovers. Sophie from emc said: [...]

Instagram – Creativity for time poor people

EMC is expanding it’s Creative Content department and we are very focused on creative images. A number of our designers have creative hobbies outside of work, including our MD Mike. He has recently joined Instagram and here is his take on the forum. When time allows I enjoy drawing and painting and also photography. What I don’t do any more is actual design in the [...]