After a busy few days in New York the O'Reilly Media team have uploaded most of the presentations from the conference held this week. You can have a look at what's available and download them all here. It's also worth having a look on Twitter under the conferences official hashtag #toccon for delegates and speakers [...]
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 site stats tell us that these are our 5 most popular blog posts from 2011: 1 How is education being transformed by the tablet? 2 An interview with one of our illustrators 3 Adding design led technology to the printed page 4 Sub-Saharan Africa in the age of digital publishing 5 Publishing Now: The [...]
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 [...]
Publishing houses, as we know them today, have in essence been around since the 15th Century. Within that time they have had to develop and embrace many technological advances; but never has the industry had to face new ideology and change on such an unprecedented scale as it is having to now with the move [...]
Alongside the educational material we design and produce, we also have specialists who commission artwork from a growing pool of talented illustrators. Having this resource in-house gives a number of advantages; • It cuts the work down for our clients - they only have to deal with one supplier. • Our specialists work closely with [...]
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 [...]
Today we learned that Pearson has acquired Global Education and Technology Group, a leading provider of test preparation services for students in China who are learning English. It seems like a good move on Pearson's part who are continually strengthening their award winning English Language teaching resources. Making a move to China, the fastest growing [...]
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 [...]