Refresh Seattle
- January 21st, 6:00PM
- Speaker: DL Byron, Textura DesignKevin Tamura, Blue Flavor
Design the Ordinary like this Fixie
This presentation is a study in the simplest of objects, their usefulness, and how they become part of our culture. It relates to web design and our tendency to overcomplicate, to play drum solos when a tight and crisp backbeat will do. Learn how to find inspiration in the ordinary and pause before adding that flair to your next project.
Byron is the Principal of Textura Design, an agency that specializes in creative and interesting approaches to social media. He's a full-time blogger, inventor of the consumer product Clip-n-Seal, and coauthor of Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business, a New Riders book.
In his career, Byron built many of the original business blogs for Fortune 100 companies. He evangelizes new web technologies, developing and deploying strategies to integrate them into business practice. He also founded and publishes Bike Hugger, a blog about bike culture and rides his bicycle in faraway places like Europe, China, and India.
Kevin published his first website in 1996. It was crude and done with Adobe PageMill. He quickly learned the limitations of WYSIWYG editors and began coding by hand, as well as learning HTML properly. His second site gained praise from the web community and was featured in the book Cutting Edge Web Design, the Next Generation. He hasn’t looked back since then. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in Communication Design from California State University, Chico, Kevin headed up to Seattle and began working for PhotoDisc/Getty Images. Feeling the need to devote more time to designing for the internet and less on print, Kevin left to join the dot com boom on the eve of the bust. Oh well.
Since then he has provided creative solutions for a variety of clients, large and small, and continued to earn praise from his peers. He has had the opportunity to work on some great projects including work for Nordstrom.com MSN Money, Cranium and eRequester, and has met some great people along the way.
Design the Ordinary like this Fixie
This Refresh meeting is held at the Design Commission, at 310 South Washington Street. Map It. Please RSVP if you'd like to attend.
After the event, we'll head over to Collins Pub for food stuffs and drinks. Click here for directions.
