Why don't we invite some people to give it a try? For a small but talented webdesign company, having the default Drupal core theme might worth a lot in marketing value. I'm pretty sure you'd get various leads out of it. :) If not, you'd still be the hero of the next Drupal release. ;-) Rather than keeping this on the development mailing list where hardly any designers are to be found, why don't we open this up a little? :) For example, why don't we invite the Alex and Arto brothers to come up with: 1. a new default theme for Drupal core and/or 2. a better adminsitration theme and/or 3. subtle refinements for bluemarine Alex won the Slashdot redesign contest and they are already familiar with Drupal. Alex: http://www.macbert.com/ Arto: http://bendiken.net/ Their company: http://www.makalumedia.com/ Of course, every one is welcome to propose or submit a design but maybe this should be discussed amongst designers rather than developers. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/