Christmas trees have arrived at emc
One of our designer's Emma has been out taking photos of the 'Christmas Tree For Sale' signs all around us. We're in very close proximity to a Christmas tree farm shop you see! Emma Prew: Xmas Trees.
We're looking for talented, creatives to join our team!
Are you a designer with an eye for detail? Are you as technically brilliant as you are creative? And do you want to work for one of the leading design agencies dedicated to publishing? If so we want to hear from you! emc design has been growing over the last few years and we have [...]
Interview with Caroline Moore on mobile language learning
A few weeks ago Sophie met up with Caroline Moore at the British Library to talk about mobile language learning. In particular Caroline's new app Word Carrot which she has helped to develop along with her other colleagues at LearnAhead. Sophie wrote the article for BookMachine so if you want to read the full article [...]
Explore Your Choices – ELT course from Pearson
Pearson ELT have been writing and designing a new blended, multi-component, course Choices and emc design were lucky enough to be involved in producing some of the components. The course is all about giving teachers and learners the flexibility (the choice) to use printed and a mixture of digital materials. This is brilliant as it [...]
New ELT courses for Young Learners from OUP
As one of the largest specialist ELT design agencies in the UK we are often tasked with designing and producing materials for large courses. This has certainly be the case for two Young Learners projects that we have produced recently for Oxford University Press. We really enjoy being given these large projects as it puts [...]
Interview with Alastair Horne from CUP on collaboration within Publishing & Race to Learn
Cambridge University Press and the Williams F1 team collaborated in 2009 to create Race to Learn, a fun, engaging educational programme that fits into the national curriculum. I asked Alastair Horne, who was the project lead for Cambridge, about it. Can you give us a brief insight into what the project is, who’s it for [...]
Can we save the Publishing industry through collaboration..?
… Well BookMachine does and so do we! سباق الحصان Tonight emc design is sponsoring BookMachine Unplugged which sees the beta launch of BookMachine.me a new platform and network for the people that make Publishing happen. The event has 4 guest speakers (Eric Huang of Penguin, Dean Johnson of Brandwidth, Alastair Horne of CUP and [...]
Designing for Business English Language Learners
We've recently been involved in producing a whole host of ELT resources for Cambridge University Press's Business & Professional English department. It's a challenging type of editorial design as there is always a lot of content to get onto the page but we enjoy the technical challenge. Use of English in a business context is [...]
New business cards to go with our new look
To go with our fresh new look we re-designed our business cards and got OpalPrint to make them. The front (common to all) was hot-foiled in white and Foilco 151 onto Colourplan Ebony 175gsm. Individual designs for the reverse were litho printed in our new green and black onto Colourplan Pristine White 175gsm The cards [...]
Our newest designer Emma explains where she gets all her creativity from…
Emma is our most recent designer to join the growing team at emc design. Here she tells us about her love of the seaside and how Stevington compares in giving her creative inspiration. Emma joins the emc design team I’m Emma and I am the newest designer to join the team, having graduated from University [...]