In our previous posts about using stock images in ELT materials, we discussed how to make the most of picture research, giving away some of our (not-so-secret) secrets. Here at emc, we’re lucky to have a dedicated, in-house Creative Content team who work closely with our designers to ensure that the research we do not [...]
So here we are at the third and final post in our mini-series on being agile in the publishing world. If you’ve been following along with us so far, in part 1 of this mini-series, you’ll remember that we introduced the complex and rapidly-changing world of (specifically) ELT publishing, highlighting the need for agile workflows [...]
Today marks the day we packed up and moved from our studio in the barn into our new home. We have now been in our new home for a whole year! We made the decision to move out of our lovely barn as we had just about outgrown it. With a growing team we were [...]
A while back we asked our Twitter followers if there was anything that we do as a design agency that they wanted to find out more about. And the lovely ladies at ELT Teacher to Writer asked us "How do you go about interpreting a publisher's brief and shape it into a book (or whatever)?" So [...]
This year, emc's Christmas card was inspired by the "12 Days of Christmas" song. We had twelve different emc-ers create a ‘tile’ for the christmas card, using one of the twelve days of Christmas as the basis for a typographic and/or illustrative design. Each emc-er was assigned a 'day of christmas' and had to stay [...]
As an ever busy design studio it is vital that we work in the most efficient way possible to meet our deadlines. Whether it be starting out on a new job in the sample design stage, text formatting and typesetting a manuscript, styling realia or getting the finished article ready for press, we always ensure [...]
Are you tired of working in your current job? Waking up uninspired and dissatisfied with what you’re doing? I think that means you are ready to start 2014 with a new and exciting challenge… Want to work for one of the leading design agencies dedicated to publishing? Well we are looking for new people to [...]
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 [...]
As one of the largest specialist ELT design agencies in the UK we are often tasked with designing and producing materials for large courses. This has certainly be the case for two Young Learners projects that we have produced recently for Oxford University Press. We really enjoy being given these large projects as it puts [...]