Earlier in the summer emc design joined Creative Cloud and we blogged about our reasons here. Adobe US then spotted it, wrote this article and then sent their UK team to film us. So if you want to find out why we've joined the Cloud, what benefits it brings to us as a design agency [...]
We’ve recently been converting some ELT course book titles from the InDesign press ready print files to ebook format for some of our ELT clients and we thought it would be useful to share some of our top tips. Structure Our most important tip is to set the original files up correctly in the first [...]
MaWSIG the newest IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) Special Interest Group are planning their first publication and invite submissions for this and future publications. They would like to invite people to submit articles on a wide range of topics related to writing and publishing ELT materials. The publications are likely [...]
The UK has seen some of its hottest temperatures for a few years this summer but whilst the rest of the country may have been donning their sun hats and relaxing by the sea emc design has been hard at work having had some of our busiest months on record. We’ve invested in a whole [...]
We came across a couple of blog posts recently highlighting the move away from using textural, shadow and other effects to add depth to a more functional 'flat' design. In essence, flat design removes the more complex elements such as textures, shadows, gradients, embossing and other effects to concentrate on the simplicity of design. As recent ELT [...]
To celebrate the launch of the latest BookMachine.me update 6 fantastic hosts, in 6 different cities are all getting together on the same night – 25th September. BookMachine [http://bookmachine.org], an event series and online networking service for the publishing industry, has partnered with organisations across UK, US, Spain and Canada to host 6 events in [...]
Over the summer we’ve been busily recruiting top new designers to join our growing and very busy team! We have a very stringent recruitment processes to ensure that we pick the most creative designers who also have a strong technical approach. We had about 450 candidates apply throughout the summer so it was no mean [...]
On Friday lunchtime, to welcome our newest two designers Becky and Abigail, we held a scarecrow making craft session for the local Stevington Scarecrow Competition. Whilst we don't think we'll win the competition it was good fun having a go and getting to know our newest recruits. Emma has also written a blog [...]
A fascinating read from Michael Trucano, of World Bank's blog EduTech. Big educational laptop and tablet projects -- Ten countries to learn from. Many countries across the world have been exploring the 1 laptop per child policy for a number of years now but what Michael observes is that this has been overtaken by a tablets [...]