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Operation Gastronomia: We’re Hungry

Here at Bad Feather we finally took pause from our regular workload, much of which involves designing and building other peoples’ websites (resisting urge to make O.P.P. joke… we recently tallied 30! custom WordPress sites) to create one of our own: A long discussed, but never prioritized project – Heather’s food blog.

This week we proudly launched OperationGastronomia.com. Let’s call this a beta version, as there are of course many plans for added plugins and design embellishments, but Heather is cooking up a storm as usual and it was time to put her content out into the world.

So now you know what we’re eating. Check it out, and follow Heather’s twitter stream @opgastronomia for more tasty bits. And most important of all, buon appetito!

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A Case of Holiday Madness

The activity level at Bad Feather HQ during the month of December can best be described as elfin. Handmade activity was at an all-time high, as we all abandoned our computers and dedicated all resources to making, baking and packing for the holidays.

Some time ago we decided buttons would be the perfect holiday goody and so, this Fall we set to work designing buttons and buttons and buttons until we selected the 20 best (the 2009 holiday edition, if you will). During the first week of December, while Brad and Heather headed to Miami for a dose of art and sun (did we mention we brought back a hambone and mustache cream as souvenirs?), the ladies of Bad Feather held down the fort and made a mound of nearly a thousand buttons.

The second week of December we decided it was time to explore our stop-motion curiosity, because of course a video is the perfect way to send a holiday message to the world. We created a quick storyboard and began cutting and taping a forest worth of paper feather trees. For the next two weeks we slowly crafted our set, including an ice skating pond and airplane. In retrospect, the hours of photographing and editing that followed were nothing…

And then there was the question of what to give to our friends and family? Cookies of course! One week before Christmas we all headed home to our respective kitchens with many pounds of sugar, butter and all those ingredients that make the word a better place. We returned the next morning each with dozens of dozens of cookies, of which we ate quite a few.

And so we packed, we labeled and we mailed. We battled the local post office which twice returned our button packages (the second time on Christmas Eve!). We designed, we edited, we emailed and eventually we all headed off (just a bit exhausted) to our respective holiday activities. Perhaps we took on too much, but it sure was fun. Thanks to all who have since sent us thanks and compliments – we hope you ate your cookies, are proudly wearing some very bad buttons, and that all enjoyed our holiday video experiment. Happy New Year!

Have you heard 2010 is the year of the Bad Feather?

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Balls, Rooftops and Wares

A lot is happening as summer gets under way here at the Old American Can Factory, (although you’d never know it’s summer with day after day of rain). This past weekend was the opening night of Rooftop Films, and Sunday we visited the inaugural Market where there were many beautifully designed, handcrafted and delicious wares to be had.

The previous Saturday the Can Factory hosted and collaborated in the NY Architectural League’s Beaux Arts Ball, this year titled “MANUFACTURE”, and it was quite the production. A factory of makers in the garage were silkscreening, sewing, headdress crafting, letterpress printing and so much more. We participated in open studios during the event and were delighted to have partygoers, guests and fellow Can Factory workers stop by to check out our work and load up with Bad Feather promos. Throughout the night we snacked on tacos, dosas and delicious ice cream served from various carts and installations in the courtyard and washed it down with frosty beers. When all the making and tasting and showing was done (we loved watching Lite Brite Neon bend neon), we closed our doors and joined the crowd for one hell of a dance party til the wee hours of the night. Thanks to our special guests and everyone who stopped by to say hi.

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KNOCK KNOCK!

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

Sign Up! (while supplies last)

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Have you signed up?

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Our first Bad Feather mailing will hit the post office next week. If you aren’t already on our mailing list, sign up! All the cool kids are doing it….

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Tote the Bad Feathers

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Just in time for the holidays, we’ve release our first promotional item – Bad Feather Inc. tote bags! Now you can take us shopping at the farmer’s market, tote us on the subway and carry us around town. Help save the world one plastic bag at a time and while you’re at it, tell everyone who’s bad.

The bags are made from 100% recycled cotton (and packaged in biodegradable plastic). Our proud “We’re Only Getting Badder” label is silkscreened in blue and on a limited number of bags, very hot pink. If you don’t already have one, contact us about availability.

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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!

Officially BAD

After a year in the making, allow us to introduce Bad Feather, Inc., our new design studio.

We’re ready and set to make great things from our outpost at the Old American Can Factory, an artist complex in Brooklyn. We’ve taken on some talented design interns and formed collaborative partnerships with a team of web developers and several other design professionals. Consider us a small studio with the capacity for bigger, badder projects.

We encourage you to join our mailing list so we can keep you posted on new projects and other developments, invite you to parties and maybe even send you some Bad Feather goodies from time to time.

Thanks for your continued support. Be a part of the Bad Feather future.