If you work in Publishing and haven't yet heard of BookMachine then get yourselves to Oxford for one of the first Book Machine 'Your Events' on Thursday 28th June. PRESS RELEASE BookMachine and Osprey Group host first event in Oxford The popular event for publishing professionals in London, moves to Oxford for the evening. BookMachine [...]
Back in February one of our Design Managers, Amy, went along to Cengage and National Geographic's latest ELT course launch, Life at the Natural history Museum. eMC Design was thrilled to be involved in the design of the Student Books for this prestigious new course and we're already looking forward to more of the components [...]
Welcome to the world of Inanimate Alice, a truly digital novel that has taken the educational world by storm. The idea for Alice first came about in 2003 and the team (Ian Harper, Chris Joseph and award winning author Kate Pullinger) published the first episode in 2005. The story is told by Alice through 10 [...]
In the first of three videos, Judith Watts, lecturer on the Publishing MA course at Kingston University asks John B. Thompson his views on how Publishing Houses should be surviving the digital revolution. To see the original post visit the Kingston Publishing blog here.
Amy gives us a sneaky peak of one the latest projects to go through the studio. Check back soon for the low down on how the launch party went at the Natural History Museum. Like so many people I look back at my school days with some regret. I wasn’t a bad student at all, [...]
Design considerations for Publishing to a Global Market In a recent FutureBook blog post, which highlighted the ever changing and further reaching audience of the blog, we offered to write an article from our perspective of Publishing for a Global Market. As a design studio that works with Educational Publishers, we have gained an understanding [...]
After a busy few days in New York the O'Reilly Media team have uploaded most of the presentations from the conference held this week. You can have a look at what's available and download them all here. It's also worth having a look on Twitter under the conferences official hashtag #toccon for delegates and speakers [...]
We are going to be visiting Publishing Expo (28-29 Feb) and the London Book Fair (16-18 April) and would like to invite you to meet up with us for a coffee. We love getting out and about, meeting new people and bumping into familiar faces. So if you would like to arrange a time to [...]
Our site stats tell us that these are our 5 most popular blog posts from 2011: 1 How is education being transformed by the tablet? 2 An interview with one of our illustrators 3 Adding design led technology to the printed page 4 Sub-Saharan Africa in the age of digital publishing 5 Publishing Now: The [...]
Our designers are a talented bunch and they seem to be passing on their talents to their children, as Amy, one of our senior designers, reports below. Last week I went to see Jake Saunders, the son of Helen, one of our designers, in his school production of Romeo and Juliet. I’ve never been to [...]