In December 1990 Mike, our MD, left a relatively well-paid job running the marketing services department of a materials testing company to set up emc design. Mike had worked in publishing before this, first starting at Longman Publishers, Harlow in 1975. العاب قمار حقيقي So, with a young family, Mike wanted to turn his hand to freelance [...]
We're super excited for this year's Image Conference, organised by Kieran Donaghy and MELTA. It's a fantastic event, dedicated to the innovative and creative use of media and images in English language teaching. This year's Image Conference will take place on Saturday 5th December in Munich. "The innovative goals of The Image Conference are to put media and images at the [...]
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 [...]
Being creatives here at emc, we love to make things including our own Christmas cards. Check out a few pics from the other evenings linocut fun:
With Christmas just around the corner, we thought we'd put together our top ten most beautiful, engaging and exciting books, perfect for presents. Eminent British photographer, Steve McCurry, releases his latest body of work “India’ and the result is truly spectacular. Feast on the vibrant colours and the poignant portraits. For comic and super hero [...]
We thought we'd give a brief round-up of some of the events and conferences you can expect to see in the next few months from within the design and publishing industries. Academic Book Week - 9th - 16th November 2015 Future book Conference 2015 - 4th December 2015 The Image Conference - 5th December 2105 – Munich ELT Freelancers Away-Day - [...]
On Saturday 7th November, IATEFL’s Materials Writing Special Interest Group (MaWSIG) will be holding their free online festival MaWFest from 10.30 am GMT. Sophie from emc has organised the event and has secured a great line-up of professionals from within the industry. bwin There will be webinars with David Duffield from the Copyright Licensing Agency, Andrew Walkley [...]
Mike attended the pre-view night of the forthcoming Turner exhibition at our local ‘The Higgins Bedford’ museum and gallery. For the first time, nine of the Higgins’ collection of watercolours by JMW Turner are on display, along with a selection of other watercolours by artists who influenced him, were his contemporaries and who followed in his footsteps. The [...]
As Assistant Production Editor at emc design, one part of my job that I really enjoy is attending events within the publishing industry. My first blog post is inspired by the BookMachine talk we attended in London in September. George Walkley at BookMachine: The Next Five Years of Publishing. Credit: Sam Perkins BookMachine celebrated their fifth [...]
Here at emc, we are all full Creative Cloud subscribers which means we get constant access to the latest updates from Adobe. Some of these updates pass us by and often are just little bug fixes. However, the most recent update to Photoshop (CC 2015) is pretty immense – we wonder how long they’ve had [...]