Top tips for creating the perfect portfolio

With the new year well and truly welcomed in, we are already starting to look for more people to join our team. Recruiting is one of our biggest challenges and finding the right person can be hard, as is finding the right job if you're a designer. So one of the best ways you can stand [...]

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 [...]

Putting the image first in ELT material development – interview with author Ceri Jones

During this year's IATEFL conference one of the big themes that stood out for us was the prominence image and video were given, as part of the teaching process but also the creation of ELT materials – finally we say! Where once the image on the page was more of an after-thought, briefed once the main [...]

Meet Rich: our newest designer

We thought it was about time you met our newest member of the team and designer, Rich. Rich has joined us with a wealth of knowledge and experience; we’re looking forward to finding out more about him and his interests. How are you finding emc so far? Really great, everyone is super friendly and helpful. [...]

Artist Celia Hart shows us how to linocut

emc design not only designs and produces materials for the publishing industry, we also research (and clear the rights for) images and commission illustrations  from our huge database of artists. We enjoy building up good relationships with the artists we use and enjoy collaborating with them on projects, as well as saying hello on social [...]

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 [...]