BookMachine’s 2022 Autumn CAMPUS courses have been released and one of our Art Buyer’s, Lucy has become a BookMachine CAMPUS course tutor! BookMachine CAMPUS is BookMachine’s library of industry-specific visual courses for publishing professionals, who want to gather new, or brush up on their existing skills. The courses are less than an hour in length [...]
It's true what they say, illustrations and images really can make or break a publication. No matter how great the typography is or how beautifully written the words are, if the creative assets don't deliver you will only have half a product! On Wednesday 11th November join me (Sophie) and an amazing panellist of speakers [...]
On 20 June, emc design hosted BookMachine Unplugged 2018: Talking Design at The Driver, Kings Cross, London. It was part of a series of exciting BookMachine events that aim to explore what is currently happening in the world of publishing. The evening focused on the visual trends emerging from outside of [...]
A good brief is the foundation of successful publishing. On Wednesday 18th October we host our third event with BookMachine “Concept, Creation & Marketing: Why we all need a good brief” to explore why getting the brief right helps to ensure published products go to press without too many hitches. Our founder Mike Cryer will [...]
photodarren.com Last week BookMachine and Unite hosted the third in a series of events focusing on working in the publishing industry. United We Publish III: Consent or Coersion consisted of a panel of speakers discussing the role of change in the workplace and how to manage it. During a fascinating evening we heard [...]
http://gty.im/459771745 EMC Design is a company of 'out-of-house' professionals who work tirelessly to meet in-house deadlines, and adapt to the individual needs of each publishing client. We have been working in this way for over 25 years and have learned a thing or two along the way. Last month a group of us attended [...]
We had a fabulous evening at our BookMachine event 'Marketing Vs Design: Which matters more?' Our three fantastic guest presenters; Katie Roden, Matt Haslum and Mark Ecob spoke about the merits of both marketing and design within the publishing process. They left us with some brilliant tips on how the two functions and teams can be [...]
Next Wednesday we are running our second BookMachine event 'Marketing Vs Design – Which matters more?' The title is intentionally facetious and the evening is set to be a light-hearted look into both the marketing and design functions of the publishing process, because of course both are of equal importance. However, we're asking the question because [...]
Marketing Vs Design – which matters more? This is the question we are posing on Wednesday 2nd November as part of our next BookMachine design event. We all know that both design and marketing are integral to making and selling the best books but all too often the two disciplines are kept very separate [...]
Last night emc design and BookMachine co-hosted the first BookMachine design themed evening 'Why Design Matters: Collaborating with your design team', at The Square Pig & Pen in Holborn. Sophie from emc design along with Sam and Laura from BookMachine had been plotting the event for a number of months, as part of [...]
