The Power of Icons: A Visual Language for the Digital Age

Icons, stemming from the Greek word "eikōn," meaning "image," are one of the most used graphic elements in our digital age, but their significance can be traced back to the earliest human civilisations. Humans have been conveying messages using symbols and pictures for over 40,000 years, predating the emergence of any written language. Pictorial symbols [...]

By |2023-10-18T12:32:52+01:00October 18th, 2023|Categories: Design, Uncategorized|0 Comments

A Warm Welcome To Our New Designers

It's hard to wrap our heads around the fact that September is nearly coming to an end already. This year has brought significant changes and achievements for our team at emc design. We relocated to a new office, or more accurately, returned to our cherished Grade 2 listed building – our beloved barn. Alongside this [...]

Exciting news – EMC Design has relocated!

We are thrilled to announce a major update: emc design has successfully relocated! For those who have been following our journey, you may have already noticed that we have returned to our beloved barn, a stunning grade 2 listed building nestled in the picturesque countryside of Bedfordshire. You might be curious about the reasons behind [...]

10-20 shortcuts student designers need to know about!

We’re often being asked how we manage to get through so much work and cope with tricky time-scales on our projects. Alongside having an experienced team we also have many processes and systems to help support us in efficient and consistent product in methodologies. No matter how experienced we are, we are constantly learning new [...]

Meet Kori – our newest Graduate Junior Designer

In September we launched our second round of our 2022 Graduate Designer Recruitment programme. Over the years we have found it to be one of the best ways to grow as a company and we are so immensely privileged that so many of our fantastic team have progressed with us from their first graduate roles [...]

Meet Niamh – our newest Graduate Junior Designer

Earlier this summer we launched the first round of our 2022 Graduate Designer Recruitment programme. Our culture is to nurture and develop new industry talent by training graduates in all we do. Over the years we have found it to be one of the best ways to grow as a company and we are so [...]

We’re hiring more designers!

This year we want to help more organisations transform even more content that has the power to educate and inspire learners around the world. As a result of a number of new opportunities we need to recruit more amazing people to our team of designers. We are looking for Graduate designers, who have yet to [...]

By |2022-05-17T11:12:46+01:00May 17th, 2022|Categories: Design, Educational Publishing, ELT, Graduate Scheme, Jobs|0 Comments

EMC becomes Carbon Negative – an update on our climate change pledge

This time last year we shared this post on our climate change pledge as a way to hold us accountable for our progress. And on Friday last week (22nd April) as the world celebrated Earth Day emc design was issued with our Carbon Neutral certification from Carbon Neutral Britain. One small part of our climate [...]

Our climate change pledge

As individuals and as a company we have watched and read countless documentaries and articles on the devastating affects climate change is having on our world. Our planet is beautifully made, perfectly balanced with ecosystems that are intended to support and help life thrive. Humans, animals and plants have lived in harmony on our earth [...]

5 Adobe Illustrator tips to make your graphics standout

In this final installment in our ‘Adobe tips and tricks’ series, we’d like to share our five favourite tips for working in Illustrator. This vector graphics software is widely used by us to create high-quality realia, illustrations and infographics for a variety of products. Top 5 Illustrator tips: Use the offset path tool to create [...]