O'Reilly's TOC announces Publishing StartUp Finalists with 2 UK companies

This week O'Reilly's Tools of Change announced their 10 Publishing StartUp Finalists and we are so pleased to hear that 2 of our favourite UK companies, Bookmachine.me and ValoBox have made it to the final! We want to wish them both our congratulations and it's great news that their hard work and brilliant ideas have [...]

emc's 2012 Christmas card is here!

Now that all of our cards have been delivered we can let the whole world see it! The theme for our 2012 Christmas card was a no brainer. With a snazzy new logo and website we knew what we wanted to feature on our card this year. So we'd like to wish all of our [...]

Bring Your Own Technology

Our article for BookMachine was originally posted on Monday 6th August here. We keep hearing that America is a few years ahead of us in terms of technology. If this is the case then UK Publishers, Schools and Educators take note. A recent report from the The Consortium for School Networking in America has highlighted [...]

One of our latest designs "The Olympian Games in Wenlock"

Ellingham Press have published a book called The Olympian Games in Wenlock to coincide with London 2012. And we designed it! "From penny-farthing racing to Wenlock the mascot, the illustrious 160-year history of the Wenlock Olympian Games is told in full colour. This book follows the progress of the Games from Victorian beginnings to the [...]

By |2017-01-11T15:57:45+01:00August 2nd, 2012|Categories: Design, eMC folk, Publishing, Updates|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

ELT Teachers can become authors with @ELT_T2W

Continuing with the theme from Sophie's last post for BookMachine on interesting English Language Teaching (ELT) Publishing start-ups, she interviewed Karen Spiller, freelance ELT project manager about her most recent venture with fellow ELT professionals Sue Kay (ELT author) and Karen White (freelance ELT project manager). What is ELT Teacher 2 Writer and who is [...]

By |2017-01-11T15:57:45+01:00July 20th, 2012|Categories: ELT, Publishing, Updates|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Writing for The Round

The changing nature of publishing is forcing Publishing houses, writers, authors – content creators – to think differently, experiment and look at working with new people in new ways. Award winning ELT authors Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings are doing just this. They have set up The Round, which aims to bring together creative people [...]

Summer Intern opportunity for students with an interest in Graphic Design

When it comes to getting into graphic design, sometimes qualifications aren’t even half the battle. 
Most agencies require studio experience, and internships are usually unpaid. We’re offering a chance to gain industry-specific skills (applicable to publishing and other areas of print design).
 Rather than shelling out for uni, this could be the best way to [...]

By |2012-06-14T15:18:45+01:00June 14th, 2012|Categories: Design, Jobs, Publishing, Updates|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

The @BookMachine bug is going to #Oxford

If you work in Publishing and haven't yet heard of BookMachine then get yourselves to Oxford for one of the first Book Machine 'Your Events' on Thursday 28th June. PRESS RELEASE BookMachine and Osprey Group host first event in Oxford The popular event for publishing professionals in London, moves to Oxford for the evening. BookMachine [...]

By |2017-01-11T15:57:45+01:00June 12th, 2012|Categories: Publishing, Updates|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Life launch party – Cengage & National Geographic's newest #ELT course

Back in February one of our Design Managers, Amy, went along to Cengage and National Geographic's latest ELT course launch, Life at the Natural history Museum. eMC Design was thrilled to be involved in the design of the Student Books for this prestigious new course and we're already looking forward to more of the components [...]