Yesterday we received the fantastic news that National Geographic Learning & Cengage Learning's latest ELT course Life had been nominated for a British Council ELTon award in the prestigious category 'Excellence in course innovation'. We loved being involved in this project throughout its production and are so pleased that everyone involved has been rewarded for [...]
As we all know Publishing and its other relevant industries has been changing and it's sometimes hard to keep up with everything that's been going on. Well here at emc design we are constantly keeping our eyes and ears open to find out what's going on. So here are our top picks of some of [...]
We came across this interesting blog post written by Louis Rogers for the ELT team at Oxford University Press. Transferability between Academic English and Business English It reminded us that we have extensive experience and knowledge in designing for the Business ELT market. And have seen this sector grow significantly over the last few years [...]
This month emc design celebrates 22 years of working for the Publishing industry. Our Director Mike Cryer founded the company in December 1990 and we've been steadily growing in size since then. We've built a strong reputation and expertise in ELT Publishing and are recognised as being one of the foremost design agencies in the [...]
A few weeks ago Sophie met up with Caroline Moore at the British Library to talk about mobile language learning. In particular Caroline's new app Word Carrot which she has helped to develop along with her other colleagues at LearnAhead. Sophie wrote the article for BookMachine so if you want to read the full article [...]
Pearson ELT have been writing and designing a new blended, multi-component, course Choices and emc design were lucky enough to be involved in producing some of the components. The course is all about giving teachers and learners the flexibility (the choice) to use printed and a mixture of digital materials. This is brilliant as it [...]
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 [...]
We've recently been involved in producing a whole host of ELT resources for Cambridge University Press's Business & Professional English department. It's a challenging type of editorial design as there is always a lot of content to get onto the page but we enjoy the technical challenge. Use of English in a business context is [...]
One of the latest projects we have designed is the digibook portal for Macmillan English's latest ELT course Breakthrough Plus. To get a sneaky peak at the portal design have a look at the YouTube video below.
Take a look at our case study of Life - the new adult elt series to be published by National Geographic Learning & Cengage. The case study shows you how we transformed the text and made the most of the beautiful NG images, whilst sticking to a demanding publishing schedule, commissioning artwork and licensing the [...]