It’s amazing how a post on Linked In, about taking time out of my day to do something for me, triggered Scott Challinor to get in touch.

It’s been a while since we blogged.  Too long in fact.  It’s simply down to the fact that we have pushed it down our ‘to do list’ as we have been busy refreshing and refurbishing or client’s projects.  Like doing the VAT, we have pushed announcing we have had a website refresh, to the back of the queue.  Time to put this right and showcase our site.  

Bev is a designer, seasoned entrepreneur and the owner/creative director of BWD LTD. She has held prominent positions in some of the largest organisations in the UK including the Arcadia Group and the University of Central Lancashire. We dubbed her, ‘the networking guru’ for the role networking has played in her success. Bev discovered the […]

What a busy year it has been so far and workloads have been steadily increasing.  We are not complaining, far from it, however, it has meant that we have had to increase our team and would like to welcome our ‘new babe who designs’ Angela Drakeford. Angela comes to us with over 20 years’ experience […]

Happy New Year.  We hope you have all had a great Christmas break.  We closed the studio over the holidays, which we do every year, to give everyone a proper break.  We are now back and getting ready for a very busy three months ahead. Two of the projects we completed before the Christmas shut-down […]

They say it’s fairly commonplace to have a ‘seven-year itch’ in your personal life but we are sure it applies to business life too.  That’s exactly what has happened here at bwd. Moving towards our eighth year we have just had our seven-year itch.  For a while now we have felt that our current website […]

We have all heard the phrase ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’, well we know you can.  We have just completed another yummy project in Preston – Indulgence Dessert Bar. Indulgence, Preston [Above] A photo of the space before the refurbishment. Following the success of our Grillaz https://youtu.be/O86YgMSLh5c restaurant in Preston, which we […]

We are so proud to announce another win for the babes who design. Yes, we did it again! On September 23rd ladies from across the North West gathered in the spectacular Winter Gardens in Blackpool to discover the winners of the Enterprise Vision Awards 2016 (EVAS). A highly commended awards ceremony celebrating women entrepreneurialism. Our […]

“How work-ready and talented students are at the University of Central Lancashire”. Our Creative Director Bev said, when she returned from judging this year’s DS16 Awards, which celebrates the talent being showcased at the 2016 Degree Shows. It’s always difficult taking time out of the studio. We are so busy all of the time. However […]

Day 1 What to expect? Where to start? Which exhibits to go to? As a “newbie” in the UK and a little out of my comfort zone in that my career was built on designing and detailing building envelopes in South Africa where there are a total different set of influences and solutions.… I was […]