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Dtek Collaboration: GPII.info and Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identitfiers

About a year and a half ago, our pals over at Dtek Digital Media launched a site for VUHID (Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier). Since then, a parent company GPII (Global Patient Identifiers Inc) has been formed to sponsor and promote the VUHID project, the goal of which is to make universal healthcare identifiers a realistic solution to the current healthcare system crisis we’re facing in the US.

We worked with Dtek to develop a logo for GPII and update the existing VUHID logo and website design to create a more consistant visual identity. You can check out the website and learn more about the VUHID/GPII project at gpii.info.

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Out first Bad Feather promo finally hit mailboxes last week. Want one?

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Join the Chorus

Join us tomorrow night for the record release party of PT Walkley’s new album, Macy Wakes Alone, at the Blender Theater in NYC. The album will be performed in its entirety, complete with string quartet, pedal steel, saw playing, harp playing, flutes, horns and choirs and you’ll be humming the stick-in-your-head songs for days. Don’t miss this show, tickets are available online.

In the meantime, you can listen to Mr. Macy Wakes Alone using the interactive song book we created at ptwalkley.com, and read what the press has to say about the album on PT’s blog. Hope to see you there!

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Building the Radius Online Store and the discovery of Big Cartel

Big ups to Indie Labs for creating an incredibly user friendly and customizable e-commerce application for small businesses that utilizes PayPal for secure payment. After some initial exploration, we added a Big Cartel store to PTWalkley.com for album sales and future merchandise. More recently we an integrated an online store into the Radius Books website and couldn’t be more pleased with the results. We were able to theme the store in the style of the main site design and adding and maintaining inventory has easily transitioned from our studio to the hands of the Radius team.

Here at Radius Books headquarters, we’ve just spent the last several weeks finalizing our online store, and we’re proud to say it’s awesome!

You can read what Radius has to say about their new store and website. Then go order PT’s new album and buy yourself a beautiful Radius book!

Conquering PopSci.com’s Best of What’s New

Recently Bad Feather undertook an ambitious project in partnership with Dtek to build the PopSci.com 2008 Best of What’s New microsite. We worked within an incredibly tight timeline and wrangled a massive amount of editorial content, but the biggest challenge of this project was to build the microsite and integrate it into PopSci’s highly customized Drupal content management system.

Brad worked on the site front-end development with Andy Hieb, who contributed to his Drupal expertise to design the microsite CMS architecture and theme customization. The site launched on November 10th, check it out!

On press with SwaySpace

Earlier this summer we began working on a design and printing collaboration with Patrick Fenton of SwaySpace to develop some of the new Bad Feather print collateral. Fellow residents of the Old American Can Factory, SwaySpace is a letterpress printing and design shop.

The process was a fun experiment, together we developed a series of patterns for the backs of our business cards as well as a design for an inaugural Bad Feather postcard mailer. Printed on duplexed sheets of 130# Mohawk Superfine cover stock, they’re incredibly dense and thick enough to do some damage. Check us out, rolling the press one day when we stopped by to check on printing progress.

Be sure to ask us for your very own Bad Feather business card from the six piece set, and join our mailing list to recieve our kick-ass mailer. We should also give props to Rolling Press who printed our Bad Feather stationery stickers and mailing labels. Get em while they’re hot!

Making websites with Dtek

Last August, Brad and I met developer Andy Hieb at a lunch with some friends in Seattle. It’s now been nearly a year that we’ve been working together with the fine men of Dtek Digital Media, co-founded by Andy and Rhys Daunic in 2000. As they describe themselves, “We are media buffs who believe in the democratizing potential of the Internet and digital technologies”.

What began with some identity and branding work for their web clients, has grown into a partnership between Bad Feather and Dtek to design and build websites. Dtek’s experience in development and coding, focus on usability and accessibility, and fondness of web standards and Free and Open Source Software is the perfect compliment to our own skills and goals as makers of fine websites. Some of our recent projects include Skill-Life, Seattle Performance Medicine and RxCreative.

Check out Andy and Rhys’s other project to promote youth media literacy, themediaspot.org