People with disabilities can better navigate, process and interact with content when it’s accessible to them. Some of the most common...

“Project Management” is a term you probably come across quite often, but what does it mean? To put it simply, project management is the...

It is a simple fact that technology is entangled in all aspects of our lives, and none more so than for students in higher education....

Are your children needing a break from the four walls of your front room? Well how about taking them on a little field trip. But we’re...

Technology used to be seen as a disruption to education; as a distraction from focus and concentration, but now, if you walk into almost...

Over the years we’ve come to learn that customers love having someone to be able to handle all their design requirements from flyers to...

Here is a non-exhaustive list that might help those affected by school closures due to the coronavirus. This list has been compiled by...

When it comes to graphics, the two primary file types you’ll work with are ‘Pixels’ and ‘Vectors’ – but what are they? And what’s the...

So, you’ve written a book and it’s ready for the next step of the publishing process. If this is the first time you’ve created a book,...

Have you ever lost a piece of work due to a computer issue or human error? Just imagine writing a whole page, chapter or heaven-forbid,...

A decent chunk of our working week is spent either working with or speaking to proofreaders about various projects or queries they might...

Tech-Set Newsletter: 40th Anniversary Statement It seems like only yesterday that John Joyce and I founded Tech-Set. I remember Pauline...

Who remembers what it was like before the internet? Who remembers having to thumb through books and books of typefaces? Who remembers...

In our last blog we wrote about our top 10 popular serif fonts. This time around we look at the serif opposite san-serif. The Cambridge...

When it comes to serif typefaces many tend to be thought of as classic and traditional. We see this a lot when it comes to typesetting a...

Today, publishing in this country is a fantastic and thriving industry, one I have been lucky enough to work in for over twenty years. It...

Publishers have this week called for the UK government to introduce measures that would allow VAT to be removed on ebooks, audio books...

Go back to early 1979, John Joyce and I were working together at a company called Speedpress in Hebburn. We used to produce Technical...

We examine the age-old debate… Perhaps now more so than ever, this debate is certainly pertinent within our industry. Since the...

Top tips to streamline your cost and time. “Every now and again it’s good to have a little moan… isn’t it?” Drawing on experience from...