Over the last few months we’ve been particularly busy creating sample designs for brand new courses. We are meticulous at getting things 100% right at this stage as it sets documents up for production whether we will be doing this or the publisher (or even off-shore). Here are our top 4 reasons why this is [...]
Over the last couple of months emc design has steadily been adding resources and people. We've transformed our management system, streamlining our scheduling software and improving our internal work flows to ensure we are giving our clients the best possible service matched with the best designs and creativity the industry has to offer. One way [...]
We came across this interesting blog post written by Louis Rogers for the ELT team at Oxford University Press. Transferability between Academic English and Business English It reminded us that we have extensive experience and knowledge in designing for the Business ELT market. And have seen this sector grow significantly over the last few years [...]
This month emc design celebrates 22 years of working for the Publishing industry. Our Director Mike Cryer founded the company in December 1990 and we've been steadily growing in size since then. We've built a strong reputation and expertise in ELT Publishing and are recognised as being one of the foremost design agencies in the [...]
Pearson ELT have been writing and designing a new blended, multi-component, course Choices and emc design were lucky enough to be involved in producing some of the components. The course is all about giving teachers and learners the flexibility (the choice) to use printed and a mixture of digital materials. This is brilliant as it [...]
As one of the largest specialist ELT design agencies in the UK we are often tasked with designing and producing materials for large courses. This has certainly be the case for two Young Learners projects that we have produced recently for Oxford University Press. We really enjoy being given these large projects as it puts [...]
We've recently been involved in producing a whole host of ELT resources for Cambridge University Press's Business & Professional English department. It's a challenging type of editorial design as there is always a lot of content to get onto the page but we enjoy the technical challenge. Use of English in a business context is [...]
One of the latest projects we have designed is the digibook portal for Macmillan English's latest ELT course Breakthrough Plus. To get a sneaky peak at the portal design have a look at the YouTube video below.
Take a look at our case study of Life - the new adult elt series to be published by National Geographic Learning & Cengage. The case study shows you how we transformed the text and made the most of the beautiful NG images, whilst sticking to a demanding publishing schedule, commissioning artwork and licensing the [...]
For those of you who follow our blog regularly you will notice that we have been writing for BookMachine and this interview with Nick Robinson was originally posted on their site on 3/9/12. This interview is with Nick Robinson about being the first ELT Agent and how he set up his company ‘Nick Robinson ELT [...]