The importance of branding your CV and portfolio

Embed from Getty Images The importance of branding your CV and portfolio with graduate design show season upon us can’t be underestimated. With thousands of newly qualified graphic designers leaving education are you doing everything you can to make sure you will stand out from the hundreds of other job applicants? Your CV and portfolio [...]

Meet Lucy: our new assistant art buyer

Meet Lucy our new assistant art buyer, who joined us back in November after graduating from Uni. How are you finding emc so far? 
So good! Everyone is so nice and friendly and I love being part of a team. I'm finding the job really interesting and I feel like I've learnt so much in the short time I've been here. [...]

Interested in joining our team? Come to our open day…

With lots of exciting plans and projects booked in this year we are looking to grow our team of designers, production editors and art buyers. سلوتس Recruiting is one of our biggest challenges; finding the right people, with the right skills and the right attitude is difficult. We can’t always tell from just looking at [...]

Our 2015 Christmas card is here!

Our 2015 Christmas Card is finally here! This year we went through several ideas and designs but we managed to finalise it down to three, just in time for printing. Yippee! The theme this year was based on winter scenes from our local surroundings with each card featuring a different photo of the beautiful countryside we work in, taken by our very [...]

Festive fun with linocut christmas card making

Being creatives here at emc, we love to make things including our own Christmas cards.  Check out a few pics from the other evenings linocut fun:

Kristina takes a look at Photoshop's new Artboard feature

Here at emc, we are all full Creative Cloud subscribers which means we get constant access to the latest updates from Adobe. Some of these updates pass us by and often are just little bug fixes. However, the most recent update to Photoshop (CC 2015) is pretty immense – we wonder how long they’ve had [...]

What's the difference between Rights Managed and Royalty Free images?

Art Buying Co-ordinator at emc design. Photo taken by Lina and Tom - Wedding & Event Photography Whether or not you’re interested in rights and licensing of images, if you’re at all involved in photo research, selection and use, it’s important to know some key facts about the process. Educational and ELT books [...]

Bedpop Fun Palace and The Robot Lab

This coming weekend Fun Palace is coming to Bedford! Fun Palaces is a national event to encourage both science and arts education, inviting people to bring them together however they choose. This year the Fun Palace is coming to Bedford for the first time with lots of different events and workshops taking place on the 3rd/4th [...]

Pinterest: How and why do we use it?

We love Pinterest! As a design agency, being able to find inspiration and market trends quickly and efficiently in a demanding publishing world is vital. Not only to ensure that we can meet design budgets but to ensure that we are designing the most creatively appealing material as well as ensuring we design for the [...]

Putting the image first in ELT material development – interview with author Ceri Jones

During this year's IATEFL conference one of the big themes that stood out for us was the prominence image and video were given, as part of the teaching process but also the creation of ELT materials – finally we say! Where once the image on the page was more of an after-thought, briefed once the main [...]