How to interpret a Publisher's design brief and turn it into something beautiful

A while back we asked our Twitter followers if there was anything that we do as a design agency that they wanted to find out more about. And the lovely ladies at ELT Teacher to Writer asked us "How do you go about interpreting a publisher's brief and shape it into a book (or whatever)?" So [...]

BETT 2015 Highlights

On Thursday 22nd January a couple of us from emc (Sophie and Ava) visited Bett 2015! The Bett show is a four day event held at the ExCel London and is the world's leading learning technology event. The event inspirational for anyone involved in education and gives them the chance to engage with a world of learning excellence [...]

REALize! 2015

REALize is a free national online professional development event for ESL/EAL practitioners across Canada and will take place on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th January 2015. The online event is funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. ivermectin scabies humans  The forum is a chance to share, learn and collaborate on the best practices within EAL/ESL. can buy [...]

Meet Ava: our new Studio & Marketing Assistant

We thought it was about time you met Ava! طريقة لعب القمار Ava joined us at the end of October to help us in the busy run up to Christmas. She helped to get our Christmas cards sent as well as kept an eye out on our social networks and was generally such a helpful bod that [...]

News Flash: New position available for Junior Production Artworker

This is a brand new opportunity to join the emc design team as a Junior Production Artworker and it’s in response to our latest recruitment campaign where we have had lots of people who are keen to join us in a non-design role, but don’t yet have lots of experience. The main purpose of the job [...]

Into the vaults at The Higgins Bedford

Mike (Cryer), his son Sam and friend Jason Pinny recently had an exciting opportunity to look at the Edward Bawden collection at The Higgins (http://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk) in Bedford. Prompted by Mike and Sam developing an interest in linocutting (see previous blogs), Sam asked The Higgins Bedford if we might be allowed a private viewing. Bawden donated [...]

New Year, New job at emc design?

We can't believe how quickly 2014 came and went. For us it was a great year, we worked on some brilliant projects, we moved to new premises and we were fortunate enough to employ some brilliant new people! 2015 promises to be an equally epic year and we are excited to announce 4 job positions [...]

Christmas Jumper Day

This year, all of us here at emc design have put on our Christmas woollies for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day! ivermectin for cattle safe for guinea pigs   ‘Save the Children’ is an organisation that provides support, education, healthcare, food and protection to children in 120 countries. Find out more here. For the third year running, Save the Children [...]

MaWSIG's Online Festival

On the 14th of December, IATEFL's Materials Writing Special Interest Group (MaWSIG) will be holding their first online festival. Inspired by a recent online romance literary festival from Harper Collins, the festival will be a free event, open to everyone, to explore current themes in the world of English Language Teaching and materials development. The [...]

12 Days of Christmas – our 2014 Christmas card is here!

This year, emc's Christmas card was inspired by the "12 Days of Christmas" song. We had twelve different emc-ers create a ‘tile’ for the christmas card, using one of the twelve days of Christmas as the basis for a typographic and/or illustrative design. Each emc-er was assigned a 'day of christmas' and had to stay [...]