Stardock's Brad Wardell will be giving a talk on the opportunities for commercial skinning. A growing number of artists are now making a full-time living designing custom user interfaces, skins, themes, icons, and other elements needed to create alternative user interfaces for applications, desktops, and websites.

And the market is likely to explode next year with Microsoft's release of Longhorn and the increasing popularity of widget and gadget enabling programs. deviantART Summit is being held in Hollywood California THIS WEEK on Friday and Saturday. Come see us and meet with thousands of other people from this virtual community. Make sure you you register for the classes early as seating is limited.