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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We'd like to introduce you to our newest member of the team and Art buying coordinator, Lily, who has joined us fresh out of uni. How are you finding emc so far? It’s been good! I’ve been really lucky to find a job that I’m really interested in and straight out of uni too. The team [...]
EMC is expanding it’s Creative Content department and we are very focused on creative images. A number of our designers have creative hobbies outside of work, including our MD Mike. He has recently joined Instagram and here is his take on the forum. When time allows I enjoy drawing and painting and also photography. What I don’t do any more is actual design in the [...]
If you’re reading this then you’re probably at, or are going to, one of the BookMachine events this evening. betfinal If you’re not and have just stumbled across us – hello! This evening BookMachine (the place for publishing folk to connect with each other) is hosting events in Oxford, London and Barcelona to celebrate and [...]
Mike, our MD, went to a lecture last week entitled Bawden’s Britain. Mike is a big fan of Edward Bawden and other British artists of that period such as Eric Ravillious, Clare Leighton and (slightly later) John Piper. We are lucky in Bedford in having a collection of over 3,000 pieces of Bawden’s work, bequeathed [...]
emc design not only designs and produces materials for the publishing industry, we also research (and clear the rights for) images and commission illustrations from our huge database of artists. We enjoy building up good relationships with the artists we use and enjoy collaborating with them on projects, as well as saying hello on social [...]
Alongside the educational material we design and produce, we also have specialists who commission artwork from a growing pool of talented illustrators. Having this resource in-house gives a number of advantages; • It cuts the work down for our clients - they only have to deal with one supplier. • Our specialists work closely with [...]