We came across this great little interview from Kaplan International Colleges with designer and illustrator Pablo Stanley. We particularly love his illustrations around the English language. Which for Pablo has been an amusing language to learn and a difficult one to grasp all the awkward phonology. Interview with Pablo Stanley, Graphic Designer & Illustrator - [...]
In a recent myfonts.com newsletter we picked up on a Kickstarter project ‘The Clothes Letters Wear’ initiated by typeface designer Jeremy Dooley. The project is to create a book that teaches young children about typeface’s and as it resonates with a few of our own passions (design, typography and education) I delved a little deeper [...]
2013 was a very busy and challenging year for emc design. With a large volume of work throughout, we really had to continuously provide the level of commitment and skill that our clients expect and that we strive to provide. The year saw many changes, both for us as a company and the industry as [...]
Are you tired of working in your current job? Waking up uninspired and dissatisfied with what you’re doing? I think that means you are ready to start 2014 with a new and exciting challenge… Want to work for one of the leading design agencies dedicated to publishing? Well we are looking for new people to [...]
With little over a month until the first IATEFL MaWSIG event takes place, two-thirds of the tickets have already been sold! So get your tickets before they all disappear. The conference is looking to be a really great day, with many excellent speakers and key industry experts participating in panel discussions. Here is an overview [...]
Back in September at the Media Futures event in London, we were given a booklet from event-based publishing service Book Kernel. Book Kernel is one of the eight collaborations to come out of the Research & Enterprise in Arts & Creative Technology (REACT) Books & Print Sandbox.  Here is a short summary of what Book Kernel can bring to your events [...]
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 [...]