On Tuesday 1st April IATEFL's Materials Writing Special Interest Group (MaWSIG) will hold its first ever Pre-Conference Event at IATEFL's yearly international conference. It's going to be a really hands-on and interesting day discussing the latest thinking on Writing for Digital. Guest speakers are: Lucy Norris, Jeremy Day, Kath Bilsborough and Laurie Harrison. As ELT publishing continues its [...]
Mike, our MD, went to a lecture last week entitled Bawden’s Britain. Mike is a big fan of Edward Bawden and other British artists of that period such as Eric Ravillious, Clare Leighton and (slightly later) John Piper. We are lucky in Bedford in having a collection of over 3,000 pieces of Bawden’s work, bequeathed [...]
emc design not only designs and produces materials for the publishing industry, we also research (and clear the rights for) images and commission illustrations from our huge database of artists. We enjoy building up good relationships with the artists we use and enjoy collaborating with them on projects, as well as saying hello on social [...]
We are delighted to announce that emc design will be sponsoring the next BookMachine event on 27th February. And as part of that evening we will be launching a very exciting new business avenue for us. ivermectin tablet usp 12 mg uses in hindi But you’ll have to be at the event if you want [...]
We came across this great little interview from Kaplan International Colleges with designer and illustrator Pablo Stanley. We particularly love his illustrations around the English language. Which for Pablo has been an amusing language to learn and a difficult one to grasp all the awkward phonology. Interview with Pablo Stanley, Graphic Designer & Illustrator - [...]
In a recent myfonts.com newsletter we picked up on a Kickstarter project ‘The Clothes Letters Wear’ initiated by typeface designer Jeremy Dooley. The project is to create a book that teaches young children about typeface’s and as it resonates with a few of our own passions (design, typography and education) I delved a little deeper [...]
2013 was a very busy and challenging year for emc design. With a large volume of work throughout, we really had to continuously provide the level of commitment and skill that our clients expect and that we strive to provide. The year saw many changes, both for us as a company and the industry as [...]
Are you tired of working in your current job? Waking up uninspired and dissatisfied with what you’re doing? I think that means you are ready to start 2014 with a new and exciting challenge… Want to work for one of the leading design agencies dedicated to publishing? Well we are looking for new people to [...]
With little over a month until the first IATEFL MaWSIG event takes place, two-thirds of the tickets have already been sold! So get your tickets before they all disappear. The conference is looking to be a really great day, with many excellent speakers and key industry experts participating in panel discussions. Here is an overview [...]
Back in September at the Media Futures event in London, we were given a booklet from event-based publishing service Book Kernel. Book Kernel is one of the eight collaborations to come out of the Research & Enterprise in Arts & Creative Technology (REACT) Books & Print Sandbox. Here is a short summary of what Book Kernel can bring to your events [...]