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 [...]
As part of our 25th Birthday we will be doing a series of '25' themed blog posts over the next year. To kick off we have a selection of 25 photos from our Christmas party at Corner5, Box End last week. This year we decided to do a last minute Secret Santa for the first [...]
Meet Katie our newest designer, who joined us back in October after graduating from Uni. How are you finding emc so far? I’m really enjoying ‘job life’ and just being in a routine again. I feel like I fit in here at EMC design... “We’re all mad here” - Alice in Wonderland. I’ve learnt so much [...]
Our 2015 Christmas Card is finally here! This year we went through several ideas and designs but we managed to finalise it down to three, just in time for printing. Yippee! The theme this year was based on winter scenes from our local surroundings with each card featuring a different photo of the beautiful countryside we work in, taken by our very [...]
In December 1990 Mike, our MD, left a relatively well-paid job running the marketing services department of a materials testing company to set up emc design. Mike had worked in publishing before this, first starting at Longman Publishers, Harlow in 1975. العاب قمار حقيقي So, with a young family, Mike wanted to turn his hand to freelance [...]
Being creatives here at emc, we love to make things including our own Christmas cards. Check out a few pics from the other evenings linocut fun:
This coming weekend Fun Palace is coming to Bedford! Fun Palaces is a national event to encourage both science and arts education, inviting people to bring them together however they choose. This year the Fun Palace is coming to Bedford for the first time with lots of different events and workshops taking place on the 3rd/4th [...]
In the spirit of this year's Great British Bake Off, we decided to hold our very own EMC Bake Off and after seven sugar-filled weeks it has finally come to an end. It's been a great few weeks with each week becoming more competitive than the last. Teams were given a weekly theme, starting with biscuit [...]
We'd like to say a big well done to Dale and Hannah, two of our designers, who have recently taken on very challenging bike rides. Find out what they had to say about their experience: Dale After running a half marathon last year in memory of my Gramp, I thought I'd up the ante this year [...]
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. [...]
