An afternoon with Hugh Dellar from Lexical Labs

Author and materials writer, Hugh Dellar, visited all of us here at emc this week to give us an ELT workshop. The idea of the workshop was for emc folk to gain more of an insight into the materials that we work on and to help us understand more about how they are used in the classroom [...]

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 [...]

You’re invited to our 25th birthday party

We’re celebrating our 25th with a special BookMachine birthday party on Wednesday 10th February, at The Square Pig & Pen, Central London. For this special birthday edition, we’re asking “Why Design Matters: Collaborating with your design team” and have invited three speakers to help look at the role of design within the publishing industry. Our speakers include: David Pearson [...]

How to add creative value without extra cost

We’re always drawing odd bits and pieces to embellish realia (real life examples in educational publishing). القمار This adds value to the page without our client needing to purchase images. It’s also part of our design service at emc! العاب تجلب المال We keep a pool of commonly used textures and even flags. This means [...]

Meet Sarah: our new Assistant Production Editor

We'd like to introduce you to our newest member of the team and Assistant Production editor, Sarah, who has joined us after finishing a MSc in Publishing. How are you finding emc so far? I love it! Everyone’s been really friendly and helpful. I’ve learnt a lot already and I’m looking forward to learning even more. [...]

BETT 2015 Highlights

On Thursday 22nd January a couple of us from emc (Sophie and Ava) visited Bett 2015! The Bett show is a four day event held at the ExCel London and is the world's leading learning technology event. The event inspirational for anyone involved in education and gives them the chance to engage with a world of learning excellence [...]

New Year, New job at emc design?

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 [...]

Interview with Pablo Stanley, Graphic Designer & Illustrator – Kaplan International Colleges Blog

We came across this great little interview from Kaplan International Colleges with designer and illustrator Pablo Stanley. We particularly love his illustrations around the English language. Which for Pablo has been an amusing language to learn and a difficult one to grasp all the awkward phonology. Interview with Pablo Stanley, Graphic Designer & Illustrator - [...]

Interview with Jeremy Dooley – typeface designer

In a recent myfonts.com newsletter we picked up on a Kickstarter project ‘The Clothes Letters Wear’ initiated by typeface designer Jeremy Dooley. The project is to create a book that teaches young children about typeface’s and as it resonates with a few of our own passions (design, typography and education) I delved a little deeper [...]

Illuminate Publishing GCSE Drama Unit

Here at emc we design a whole range of materials for a variety of products, from ELT materials, sports books and school textbooks. We are proud to announce that one of our latest pieces has been the design & layout for Illuminate Publishing's newest  Drama textbook for GCSE: Unit 1 Devised Practical Performance. Endorsed by [...]