Festive fun with linocut christmas card making
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:
Top 10 Books for Christmas 2015
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 [...]
Upcoming Publishing and Design Events
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 - [...]
MaWSIG's Free Online Festival
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 [...]
Magnificent Turners on our doorstep – latest exhibition from The Higgins Bedford
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 [...]
Do you know your known knowns?: A Reflection from BookMachine's 5th Birthday
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 [...]
Kristina takes a look at Photoshop's new Artboard feature
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 [...]
What's the difference between Rights Managed and Royalty Free images?
Art Buying Co-ordinator at emc design. Photo taken by Lina and Tom - Wedding & Event Photography Whether or not you’re interested in rights and licensing of images, if you’re at all involved in photo research, selection and use, it’s important to know some key facts about the process. Educational and ELT books [...]
Bedpop Fun Palace and The Robot Lab
This coming weekend Fun Palace is coming to Bedford! Fun Palaces is a national event to encourage both science and arts education, inviting people to bring them together however they choose. This year the Fun Palace is coming to Bedford for the first time with lots of different events and workshops taking place on the 3rd/4th [...]
The Great EMC Bake Off
In the spirit of this year's Great British Bake Off, we decided to hold our very own EMC Bake Off and after seven sugar-filled weeks it has finally come to an end. It's been a great few weeks with each week becoming more competitive than the last. Teams were given a weekly theme, starting with biscuit [...]