We are going to be visiting Publishing Expo (28-29 Feb) and the London Book Fair (16-18 April) and would like to invite you to meet up with us for a coffee. We love getting out and about, meeting new people and bumping into familiar faces. So if you would like to arrange a time to [...]
Our designers are a talented bunch and they seem to be passing on their talents to their children, as Amy, one of our senior designers, reports below. Last week I went to see Jake Saunders, the son of Helen, one of our designers, in his school production of Romeo and Juliet. I’ve never been to [...]
On Friday 25th November Tweeters from across the Twittosphere gathered around the hashtag #Pubnow to have a discussion based around the question 'How is innovation adding value to publishing?' The students at City University and Sophie from eMC Design moderated the chat. For those who don't have a Twitter account or would like to keep [...]
This week HRH The Duke of Edinburgh announced the winners of the 2011 English-Speaking Union English Language Book Awards. And eMC Design is delighted to have been involved with the production of the winning course. Written by Antonia Clare, Frances Eales, Steve Oakes, JJ Wilson and published by Pearson Longman, Speakout is a new general [...]
Before we went to the November Book Machine gathering, we called into a little gallery just off Marylebone High Street called Jagged Art to see the latest exhibition from Francisca Prieto, Between Folds. The small room was full of her works which are based around using old and damaged books, newspapers and maps. Francisca folds [...]
Whilst the weather has still been warm and sunny some of the guys at eMC have been taking full advantage of working in the countryside. Most lunchtimes the walking group go off laden with carrier bags and forage amongst the country lanes and fields for all kinds of autumnal goodies buried in the hedgerows around [...]
Tonight is the first Book Machine live Twitter discussion (21st Sept 18.30 GMT - follow #BMhour) and we are going to be asking, 'What effect will digital publishing have on access to content in developing countries?' This is a subject that I have become really interested in since coming to work at eMC Design. Last [...]
If you read our blog the other week you will have seen that we attended a seminar at London Book Fair on how digital publishing may impact developing countries. This week we will be participating in Book Machine's first ever Twitter debate "What effect will digital publishing have on access to content in developing countries?" [...]
Mike and Duncan have been touching up some photos to use in one of the books we are working on at the moment. And they have come across this brilliant plug-in for Photoshop. Topaz DeNoise brilliantly clears up any ISO noise on your images. It's top features: Shadow tone restoration to correct image black levels. [...]
Playhaus Design Competition. Deadline for entries is 30th September 2011 and the winner receives ,000! ivermectina cx We hope there might be some books featuring in the playhouse designs!