We'd like to introduce you to our newest member of the team and Art buying coordinator, Lily, who has joined us fresh out of uni. How are you finding emc so far? It’s been good! I’ve been really lucky to find a job that I’m really interested in and straight out of uni too. The team [...]
Last week Sophie attended MaWSIG's (IATEFL's Materials Writing Special Interest Group) first meet-up. And as she's part of the organising committee we thought it would be a good chance to find out more about the event and how it went. What is MaWSIG? The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Langauge has special interest [...]
On November 6th 2014, a few of us from emc design attended the BookMachine event held in London with guest speaker Rebecca Swift. It was an informal event and an opportunity to meet, socialise and network with other people from within the publishing industry, including designers, editors, writers, publishers and general book lovers. Sophie from emc said: [...]
The publishing industry is evolving at a rapid pace, providing us with lots of new opportunities to grow and develop as a company. The work is fast-paced and challenging as we continually meet the changing needs of our clients. In May emc design moved to our new home in Oakley and we are now looking for more [...]
You can't fail to have noticed that today sees the start of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. As we all get ready to cheer on an unknown country, Gavin is organising our emc sweepstake, thousands of children (and probably grown ups too) are preparing for the event with The Official 2014 FIFA World Cup [...]
We recently published a five-part blog series looking into the idea of global language, aiming to answer the question ‘Is English the ultimate global language?’. If you missed these posts or want to refresh your memory, you can start here. In the second part of the series I wrote about Esperanto, a language created specifically [...]
London 22 May 2014 – Kingston University Press and BookMachine will launch the joint publication ‘Snapshots’, a compilation of articles around digital, discoverability and collaboration, at a gathering in London this evening. A number of top speakers who contributed to the book will each deliver a short talk for an audience of over 100 publishing professionals. can you [...]
As we’re currently in the midst of a recruitment campaign, we thought it would be helpful if we told you how we recruit and gave you some top tips for (hopefully) getting that interview! قمار على النت How do emc design recruit? 1. We ask all potential candidates to email their pdf CV and pdf [...]
With the end of year design shows nearly upon us, are you a graduate designer trying to decide what to do next with your design qualification? Well, there are of course hundreds of potential options but we thought it would be helpful (especially as we are looking for 3 graduates to join us this summer) if we told you [...]
In a five-part blog series I have been proposing to answer the question: Is English the ultimate global language? This is the fifth and final post of this blog series. Read posts 1, 2, 3 and 4 to catch up. In part 4 I considered how the English language has evolved to become a prime [...]
