Beta-1 of Expression Blend (previously Expression Interactive Designer) and a new CTP of Expression Design (previously Expression Graphic Designer) have just been released. You can get them from the main site here.

According to the team blog there have been some big changes, most notably to the user-interfaces that they’re using. It now looks like this:

It seems a little dark to me, but then I’m not a designer, and it does fit nicely with the Vista themes. If you’re doing web-design it might well be worth checking them out if you can tear yourself away from Dreamweaver :-)

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Bootnote: Apologies for the poor CSS on the image link. I’ve still not quite got the hang of TextPattern yet. As soon as I can work out how to add alt-text and captioning, I will.