Our Time Designs
Richmond, Virginia. Est. 2008. Back in business 2026.
Our Time Designs is a small product studio with twenty years of design leadership behind it and a lifetime of playing music. We used to make other people’s brands look good. Now we make software, and we ship it. First up: drums that listen.
Two apps. Both the kind we wished existed.
Early access
Photos, vectors, type and pages in one document.
Open a photo, draw over it, set the type, lay out the pages and export the lot without leaving the window. Pyxl is free to use; a one-time key unlocks saving and export. Windows now, Mac later.
Pre-launch preview
Drums that listen to your riff.
Plug in. Play. PadLock hears your guitar or bass and writes a drum part that locks to it. Shape each section with a few knobs, audition it, then drag the MIDI into your DAW. Windows and Mac, no plugin install.
A studio that took a gap year. Fifteen of them.
Our Time Designs opened in 2008 to help Richmond’s small businesses look good on the brand-new smartphone screen. Ad agencies, magazines, construction companies: if it needed design and marketing, we did it.
Then the founder went to lead design at a very large bank, and the studio went quiet. In 2026 it’s back with a sharper job: build our own products, and ship them.
Tommy Rayburn has led design for twenty years, the last thirteen at Capital One, where he runs design for AI and machine-learning platforms. Before that: small business banking, credit card rewards used by tens of millions of people, board games, VR.
He also plays. PadLock exists because he got tired of programming drums by hand.
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