Expession Blend Design
Not many graphic designers are familiar with Microsoft Expression Blend, but a significant client has recently awarded us a project to design a GUI in Expression Blend. We cannot make the full details public at this time, but we are working with a programmer who will develop the code behind our designs.
Background
WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)/Silverlight is relatively new technology Microsoft has developed to mirror the use of Adobe Flash. Just as Flash can be designed using other Adobe tools, Microsoft released their own suite of tools called Expression. For example, Expression Designer is similar to Adobe Illustrator; Expression Web is similar to Adobe Dreamweaver. Expression Blend has the designer features of Adobe Illustrator with the ability to link in Microsoft data component objects. Because this technology is so new, it may be hard to find a graphic designer familiar with Expression Blend and these other tools.
For More Information
http://www.microsoft.com/expression
http://www.silverlight.net