latest posts
Allermuir US site refresh
Categories: bd2 + digital
We've just refreshed Allermuir's US website to feature their stunning new Axyl range which has just won the prestigious Red Dot Design Award and Best of Neocon Award for innovation at this year's show in Chicago.…
Read more
Destination Digital at Wigan Town Hall
Categories: digital + wigan + events
Who knew that Wigan's Town Hall, which is a former Mining and Technical College, would be 'Destination Digital'.…
Umbraco Certified Partners
Categories: bd2 + digital + umbraco
We've been using the leading Umbraco Content Management System since version 2, we're shortly moving to version 8, so you could say we're quite experienced.…
Kay Burley at Wigan Youth Zone
Categories: wigan + events
Sky's Kay Burley at Wigan Youth Zone's Business Breakfast talking about her career in journalism which started at The Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle…
Umbraco CodeGarden 18 Odense, Denmark
Categories: bd2 + digital + events + umbraco
Things didn't start too well, if I'm honest, as getting to Umbraco's annual developer conference CodeGarden, held in Odense Denmark, proved something of an ordeal...…
20 ideas from the last 20 years
Categories: bd2 + Brand + digital
We're celebrating our 20th year with 20 ideas from the last 20 years.…
bd2 People
Categories: bd2
We've grown again! Read about our new bd2 recruit and the latest achievements of our digital apprentice.…
Beyond Wigan Pier premiere
Categories: bd2 + Brand + wigan
Beyond Wigan Pier Premiere…
Sherringtons (part 1)
And so the journey begins.…
Becoming GDPR compliant and the impact on marketing
Categories: marketing + digital
With just over a month to go until the much anticipated GDPR comes into effect, we look at where to start and what it means for marketing.…
Unsocial media (part 5)
Categories: social media
"We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you." Five days after the Cambridge Analytica story broke, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg comes clean.…
Invest in Wigan
The 'Invest in Wigan' Insider event with Ian Lenagan [Wigan Warriors Owner], Donna Hall [Wigan Council Chief Exec], Chris Shaw [Urban Splash], Gary Speakman [CFO Shearings], Duncan Sutherland [Director Sigma Capital] discussing impact of HS2 and inward investment on Wigan, the town centre and Wigan Pier Quarter.…
Unsocial media (part 4)
We've written a series of blogs about the ills of social media which has now hit the front pages following last night's Channel 4 News exposé of Cambridge Analytica's possible misuse of user data procured from Facebook to allegedly influence electoral campaigns in various countries including the US.…
Dr Warren Larkin REACh interview
Categories: bd2 + marketing
Video interview with Consultant Clinical Psychologist Dr Warren Larkin who is the Clinical Lead for the Department of Health Adverse Childhood Experiences. Warren is also Visiting Professor at Sunderland University where he is working with the Faculties of Public and Population Health and Mental Health to develop their research programme and training curricula for Public Health and Mental Health professionals.…
Wigan & Leigh College Careers Lecture
Categories: bd2 + wigan
Links between academia and industry are critical to address the skills gap. We try to take every opportunity to make a contribution and were more than happy to support Wigan and Leigh College's Careers Day with a lecture to over 50 design and digital under graduates.…
Unsocial media (part 3)
Categories: social media + digital
"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing good quality search to users. We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of users." Wrote Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in an academic article for Stanford University in 1998.…
Book Review
Categories: design
Hewlett’s first ever monograph celebrates a collection of his illustrations from the Tank Girl comics to his collaboration with Damon Albarn and the art-pop concept Gorillaz…
Creative and digital futures
Categories: bd2 + digital + wigan + events
There's a certain kind of symmetry in that, on the same day bd2 was advising the designers of tomorrow at Standish High School's Mock Interview Conference, we were also attending Manchester Digital's Skills Festival debating the shortage of skills needed today.…
Beyond Wigan Pier
George Orwell's seminal book 'The Road to Wigan Pier' celebrates its 80th Anniversary in 2018. A Civic Reception for his son, Richard Blair, took place on Thursday 1st February in The Mayor's Parlour...…
Unsocial media (part 2)
There was barely a news bulletin last week that didn’t feature a report from the World Economic Forum at Davos, attended by many of the world’s leading and political leaders. One of the more interesting speeches came from renown investor and philanthropist George Soros.…