About Textura Design

11 years ago

Textura Design Inc., founded in 1997, started as a group of creative professionals exploring art and technology. Over the years, our work expanded to include web design for clients, the development of new consumer products, and business blogging. Textura Design is based in Seattle, near Alki Beach and is the parent company of Hugger Industries.

What is this site?

This site is a blog and we've been blogging here for years, even before it was called blogging. The blog posts fall under various tags and include updates on our projects, clients, book, design, cycling and "dreeping," our observations about living in Seattle.

We use Movable Type as our blogging application. We also design and build Movable Type blogs for our clients.

Still curious? Check our TDI FAQ page.

The Team

DL Byron: Principal, Blogger, Author
Jason Swihart: Projects & Community
Jay Allen: Application Architect
Scott Benish: Designer, Implementor, Problem Solver
Pam Massey: Operations Director
Studio Pug: Cap'n

What we do

We blog, evangelize, design, develop, consult, and write. We'd be happy to talk with you more about business blogging and also suggest you read our book about business blogging. Also meet us when we're out speaking and attending various like IDF and CES.

Awards

Back in the day, Textura Design won Cool Site of the Day for reverb: an echo of our friend and Best of the Cool for Textura Design.com. CoolStop named "distillates" Site of the Month and Textura Design has been nominated for a Rockefeller Foundation Media Fellowship. We probably won more awards in the blur of the dotcoms.

Press

2005 was very busy for us, in 2006 the blogging continued, nonstop into 2007, and 2008 is already busy. The frequent press interviews are related to Clip-n-Seal, busines blogging, our work for clients, and our book about blogging. If you've read an article on us or seen us speak recently, please let us know what you thought.

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See Us Speak

Web Design World Chicago

May 5-7

Web Design World Chicago 2008—the longest-running Web design conference in the industry—goes to Boston for the first time.

Byron will explain why your home page is obsolete and how to build a blog-oriented architecture.

WebVisions

May 22-23

WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy to uncover the trends and agents of change that will shatter your assumptions about the Web.

Byron will discuss how Big Business is being revolutionized by blogging and why you need to pay attention.

Web Design World Seattle

July 21-23

Web Design World Seattle 2008 is back in Seattle for another outstanding event.

Byron will talk about corporate mashups, blogging the intranet, and more.

Read Our Books

Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business

By DL Byron and Steve Broback

This practical book explains the real-world techniques, tools and concepts designers and marketers can use to build a blog that enhances their business objectives. Buy It!

Hacking Movable Type

By Jay Allen, Brad Choate, Ben Hammersley, and Matthew Haughey

Movable Type, that amazingly powerful personal publishing application, is the superhero of the Internet age. But when you push, poke, stretch, and otherwise coax it into producing even more, the possibilities for your Web content are simply superlative. Roll up your sleeves and get moving-here's the first book to tell you how. Buy It!