Here at emc we design a whole range of materials for a variety of products, from ELT materials, sports books and school textbooks. We are proud to announce that one of our latest pieces has been the design & layout for Illuminate Publishing's newest Drama textbook for GCSE: Unit 1 Devised Practical Performance. Endorsed by [...]
Last weekend I was fortunate enough to attend the Society of Young Publishers Conference at Oxford Brookes University. It was my first publishing conference and I was eager to learn more about the industry and where it was heading. From an emc design perspective, we were also keen to discover the future trends of publishing [...]
Hours before posting this blog, I read two interesting articles (about the same subject) on the Guardian and the British Council sites, which has changed the course of this post (or at least the opening paragraph). Each showed that language learning in the UK has declined, stating "three-quarters of the UK public are unable to [...]
We are pleased to announce that Sophie, our Business Development Manager here at emc design, will be co-ordinating three upcoming events for IATEFL. IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) is an organisation for English Language Teachers to develop and support each other throughout the world. They regularly post their online [...]
You may or may not have noticed the increase in activity from us lately (twitter, facebook, linked in) and there is a very good reason for that... In the run up to Christmas we have a packed schedule: lots of ELT & Educational Design Projects, a very exciting secret project, planning MaWSIG Events, more growth plans and [...]
emc design has gone red with pride as Carlton Books release Arsenal and Liverpool Colouring and Sticker Activity Books as well as Official Guide & Record Books for the Premiership's current leading clubs! We have been busy working over this last year with Carlton Publishing Group to produce and design the Activity and Sticker Books [...]
Earlier in the summer emc design joined Creative Cloud and we blogged about our reasons here. Adobe US then spotted it, wrote this article and then sent their UK team to film us. So if you want to find out why we've joined the Cloud, what benefits it brings to us as a design agency [...]
We’ve recently been converting some ELT course book titles from the InDesign press ready print files to ebook format for some of our ELT clients and we thought it would be useful to share some of our top tips. Structure Our most important tip is to set the original files up correctly in the first [...]
MaWSIG the newest IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) Special Interest Group are planning their first publication and invite submissions for this and future publications. They would like to invite people to submit articles on a wide range of topics related to writing and publishing ELT materials. The publications are likely [...]