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 [...]
You may or may not have noticed the increase in activity from us lately (twitter, facebook, linked in) and there is a very good reason for that... In the run up to Christmas we have a packed schedule: lots of ELT & Educational Design Projects, a very exciting secret project, planning MaWSIG Events, more growth plans and [...]
emc design has gone red with pride as Carlton Books release Arsenal and Liverpool Colouring and Sticker Activity Books as well as Official Guide & Record Books for the Premiership's current leading clubs! We have been busy working over this last year with Carlton Publishing Group to produce and design the Activity and Sticker Books [...]
Earlier in the summer emc design joined Creative Cloud and we blogged about our reasons here. Adobe US then spotted it, wrote this article and then sent their UK team to film us. So if you want to find out why we've joined the Cloud, what benefits it brings to us as a design agency [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
To celebrate the launch of the latest BookMachine.me update 6 fantastic hosts, in 6 different cities are all getting together on the same night – 25th September. BookMachine [http://bookmachine.org], an event series and online networking service for the publishing industry, has partnered with organisations across UK, US, Spain and Canada to host 6 events in [...]
We have just purchased 19 licenses to Adobe Creative Cloud for all of our staff here at emc design. There has been some controversy over this move by Adobe to change their sales model from a physical product with specific licenses per application to a complete cloud-based subscription model. But we think there are some [...]