How agile can we be? An editorial perspective – Part 2 of 3

In the first part of this mini-series we discussed the complexities of ELT publishing – focusing on publishers’ growing need to get courses to market quickly without losing quality. To do this, the supply chain for larger projects is often made up of smaller companies and individuals, all of whom are going to be working [...]

How agile can we be? Working effectively with small businesses – Part 1

As global publishers increasingly promote agile workflows both internally and externally, they rely more and more heavily on many individuals and smaller businesses to help get their massive, multi-million pound courses and products to market. These external suppliers (like emc) can provide any number of different services – from simple design of one component to [...]

We can't believe it's been a year…

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 [...]

How to add creative value without extra cost

We’re always drawing odd bits and pieces to embellish realia (real life examples in educational publishing). القمار This adds value to the page without our client needing to purchase images. It’s also part of our design service at emc! العاب تجلب المال We keep a pool of commonly used textures and even flags. This means [...]

Meet the IPG Innovators at London Book Fair

We're really excited to be taking part in the Independent Publishers Guild's "Meet the Innovators" zone at this year's The London Book Fair. There will be a total of nine companies taking part including us! We decided to take part because we want to talk to companies about innovative ways we can work together, either through collaborative projects [...]

Speed dating with Oxford Brookes Publishing students

On Monday Kathryn and Sophie travelled across to Oxford Brookes to take part in their annual "Working in Publishing Day". The uni arranges this day every year to give students the opportunity to talk to people working in and around the industry and this year we were really privileged to take part! We talked to [...]

MaWSIG PCE 2015: The Material Writer’s Essential Toolkit

The 49th Annual International IATEFL Conference and Exhibition will take place from the 11th-14th April, with  ELT professionals coming together to discuss, reflect on and develop ideas. ivermectin for chickens how many times There will also be the chance to view the latest ELT publications, products and services available. And we are going to be there! The [...]

A window into our world

Way back in May last year we took the big decision to move into new premises as we had outgrown our old studio at the Barn. Whilst we settled in quickly (we had to really as we were incredibly busy) we still needed to do quite a bit of work to create the design studio [...]

How to interpret a Publisher's design brief and turn it into something beautiful

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 [...]

Meet Ava: our new Studio & Marketing Assistant

We thought it was about time you met Ava! طريقة لعب القمار Ava joined us at the end of October to help us in the busy run up to Christmas. She helped to get our Christmas cards sent as well as kept an eye out on our social networks and was generally such a helpful bod that [...]