With little over a month until the first IATEFL MaWSIG event takes place, two-thirds of the tickets have already been sold! So get your tickets before they all disappear. The conference is looking to be a really great day, with many excellent speakers and key industry experts participating in panel discussions. Here is an overview [...]
Hours before posting this blog, I read two interesting articles (about the same subject) on the Guardian and the British Council sites, which has changed the course of this post (or at least the opening paragraph). Each showed that language learning in the UK has declined, stating "three-quarters of the UK public are unable to [...]
We are pleased to announce that Sophie, our Business Development Manager here at emc design, will be co-ordinating three upcoming events for IATEFL. IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) is an organisation for English Language Teachers to develop and support each other throughout the world. They regularly post their online [...]
We’ve recently been converting some ELT course book titles from the InDesign press ready print files to ebook format for some of our ELT clients and we thought it would be useful to share some of our top tips. Structure Our most important tip is to set the original files up correctly in the first [...]
MaWSIG the newest IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) Special Interest Group are planning their first publication and invite submissions for this and future publications. They would like to invite people to submit articles on a wide range of topics related to writing and publishing ELT materials. The publications are likely [...]
The UK has seen some of its hottest temperatures for a few years this summer but whilst the rest of the country may have been donning their sun hats and relaxing by the sea emc design has been hard at work having had some of our busiest months on record. We’ve invested in a whole [...]
We came across a couple of blog posts recently highlighting the move away from using textural, shadow and other effects to add depth to a more functional 'flat' design. In essence, flat design removes the more complex elements such as textures, shadows, gradients, embossing and other effects to concentrate on the simplicity of design. As recent ELT [...]
A fascinating read from Michael Trucano, of World Bank's blog EduTech. Big educational laptop and tablet projects -- Ten countries to learn from. Many countries across the world have been exploring the 1 laptop per child policy for a number of years now but what Michael observes is that this has been overtaken by a tablets [...]
One of the projects we worked on last year for Oxford University Press Magic Time second edition is now available to buy from OUP. We loved re-editioning this popular Primary ELT series and think young learners will find it magical! escabiose ivermectina Multi-component projects, like Magic Time, require design and visual consistency throughout, as well [...]
For the last few years emc design has been working with the Macmillan ELT team on the acclaimed Global ELT series. To get an understanding of the enormity of the project and the many processes involved in creating such an extensive course we've created a case study on the design & production process. See it [...]