We just launched threeintentions.com, a web site that will build a community around the idea of the mind / body / spirit connection. The site provides related resources and represents teachers working in the field.

Three Intentions is organized by Brooke Warner, based in Berkeley, who Bad Feather and I worked with closely from conception and initial sketches, to branding and site mocks, to execution in WordPress. The site provides profile information, a blog platform, and event organization for Brooke and the Three Intentions teachers, whose numbers will be growing as the site gains traction.

Take a break from your daily grind to stop by threeintentions.com, and be sure to let Brooke know that Dtek and Bad Feather sent you.

We built a web site for the Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier project (VUHID; pronounced “view-hid”) a year and a half ago. Since then, Global Patient Identifiers, Inc (GPII) was formed as a parent company for VUHID.

Working with Bad Feather, we created a new identity and logo for GPII, updated the VUHID logo for visual consistency, and reworked the web site to be the combined home for both GPII and VUHID. See the new GPII identity, and the latest on the VUHID project, at gpii.info.

Through VUHID, GPII hopes to improve healthcare through a slew of benefits to all the related stakeholders, while taking privacy concerns very seriously.

Keep up the good work, GPII!

Earlier this year the Popular Science web site was rebuilt with Drupal to much fanfare within the community. The new popsci.com is an example of how Drupal can perform at the “enterprise level”, and I think it’s fair to say that the site set a new gold standard for Drupal. So, I was thrilled to recently have the chance to work on the 2008 Best of What’s New “microsite” for popsci.com — BOWN is an annual event for PopSci, but obviously this was the first time it was built on Drupal.

I was working with Bad Feather, who had a contract with the Bonnier Corporation, publishers of Popular Science, to develop BOWN 2008. The project had to come together fast, but thanks to the hustle of Heather, Brad, Josh and I, and the PopSci editorial and technical teams, we launched BOWN 2008 on-schedule within the existing Drupal framework.

Obviously the heavy development work was already done thanks to the excellent existing Drupal site, but we had our work cut out for us adjusting the Drupal configuration, modifying the existing theme, and managing all of the BOWN content. On the Drupal side, we used the expected Drupal pillars: CCK to create a new content type for BOWN and make some small extensions to a few existing content types to hook into BOWN; and Views to create all of our custom node lists. On the theming front we created new page templates and theme functions to make BOWN match the graphic design spec we were given, including BOWN navigation, block and ad placements.

Check out the write-up of the original Drupal migration for background, then dig in to BOWN 2008!

Skill-Life, Inc promotes youth financial literacy and math skills through interactive media, such as their Cents City video game. Along with Bad Feather, we recently created a new visual identity for Skill-Life, and developed a new web site for them at skill-life.com.

The web site is built on the WordPress publishing platform, and serves three main purposes: presenting basic information about the company; providing a blogging platform for Skill-Life to publish news; and providing an online home for demos of their interactive products, like Cents City.

The site is already proving its worth, serving as a demo platform for Skill-Life founder Felix Lloyd’s presentation to potential partners and investors last week.

Obviously given the current economic circumstances, the need for the services Skill-Life provides couldn’t be greater. We look forward to supporting Skill-Life and continuing to work with Felix in the years ahead.

Boston-based RxCreative, the brainchild of my friend J Emerson Kohler, works at the crossroads between medicine and entertainment. Got a drab medical presentation that you need to spice up? Need some “fact-checking” for your hospital-based TV series? Talk to RxCreative!

We recently helped RxCreative establish a brand identity, complete with business cards and other print material, and develop an online presence at rxcreative.com. Bad Feather handled the branding, and we built the site. Medical Narratives. Narrative Medicine. RxCreative.