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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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Inauguration at the Yes We Can Factory

Today we watched the inauguration of our 44th President, Barack Obama, together with a group of friends and neighbors here at the Old American Can Factory.

Bad Feather believes in color theory and the words of Rev. Joseph Lowery. We hope for “that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right”.

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Bad Feather is proud of our country, and our new President. We look forward to the future.

*We can’t take credit for the clever title of this post, that goes to Nathan Elbogen, our building curator.

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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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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

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.