Creative Content launched at BookMachine

If you’re reading this then you’re probably at, or are going to, one of the BookMachine events this evening. betfinal If you’re not and have just stumbled across us – hello! This evening BookMachine (the place for publishing folk to connect with each other) is hosting events in Oxford, London and Barcelona to celebrate and [...]

Writing for Digital (IATEFL's MaWSIG Pre Conference Event)

On Tuesday 1st April IATEFL's Materials Writing Special Interest Group (MaWSIG) will hold its first ever Pre-Conference Event at IATEFL's yearly international conference. It's going to be a really hands-on and interesting day discussing the latest thinking on Writing for Digital. Guest speakers are: Lucy Norris, Jeremy Day, Kath Bilsborough and Laurie Harrison. As ELT publishing continues its [...]

Bawden in Bedford

Mike, our MD, went to a lecture last week entitled Bawden’s Britain. Mike is a big fan of Edward Bawden and other British artists of that period such as Eric Ravillious, Clare Leighton and (slightly later) John Piper. We are lucky in Bedford in having a collection of over 3,000 pieces of Bawden’s work, bequeathed [...]

Artist Celia Hart shows us how to linocut

emc design not only designs and produces materials for the publishing industry, we also research (and clear the rights for) images and commission illustrations  from our huge database of artists. We enjoy building up good relationships with the artists we use and enjoy collaborating with them on projects, as well as saying hello on social [...]

BookMachine Press Release

We are delighted to announce that emc design will be sponsoring the next BookMachine event on 27th February. And as part of that evening we will be launching a very exciting new business avenue for us. ivermectin tablet usp 12 mg uses in hindi But you’ll have to be at the event if you want [...]

Interview with Jeremy Dooley – typeface designer

In a recent myfonts.com newsletter we picked up on a Kickstarter project ‘The Clothes Letters Wear’ initiated by typeface designer Jeremy Dooley. The project is to create a book that teaches young children about typeface’s and as it resonates with a few of our own passions (design, typography and education) I delved a little deeper [...]

A Look Back at 2013

2013 was a very busy and challenging year for emc design. With a large volume of work throughout, we really had to continuously provide the level of commitment and skill that our clients expect and that we strive to provide. The year saw many changes, both for us as a company and the industry as [...]

An exciting new job at emc design could be waiting for you…

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 [...]

Illuminate Publishing GCSE Drama Unit

Here at emc we design a whole range of materials for a variety of products, from ELT materials, sports books and school textbooks. We are proud to announce that one of our latest pieces has been the design & layout for Illuminate Publishing's newest  Drama textbook for GCSE: Unit 1 Devised Practical Performance. Endorsed by [...]

SYP Conference Round Up

Last weekend I was fortunate enough to attend the Society of Young Publishers Conference at Oxford Brookes University. It was my first publishing conference and I was eager to learn more about the industry and where it was heading. From an emc design perspective, we were also keen to discover the future trends of publishing [...]