We are proud to announce that Web Design Mash has teamed up with We Are Social who are working alongside Microsoft and we are be able to offer you lucky people the chance to win a FULL licence of Microsoft Expression Studio 3 worth a staggering £448.21 ($620.85).

Microsoft Expression Studio opens up a new world of creative possibility. Its professional design tools give you the freedom to make your vision real—whether you’re designing for standards-based Web sites, rich desktop experiences, or Silverlight. Includes Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design and Expression Encoder.


If you think and design visually, Expression Studio is a perfect tool to enable you to create compelling, impactful and expressive designs for the desktop and the web. The visually rich technologies in Silverlight and .NET offer amazing possibilities to bring your creative ideas to life using a range of design tools purpose built for the task.

What’s in the box:

  • SketchFlow prototypes are fast, easy and inexpensive to build, making it possible to create, explore and compare multiple ideas before moving forward with a solution. Learn more »

  • Expression Web makes creating compliant standards-based Web sites faster and easier. With a state-of-the-art design surface that generates clean CSS, you can make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you’re seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page. Learn more »

  • Expression Blend™ is the tool for interaction design on the Silverlight and .NET platforms and enables user experience concepts to be delivered with full fidelity, from the initial prototype to the completed project. Learn more »

  • Expression Design is a professional design tool for creating graphics content that can be used within the authoring applications in Expression Studio: Expression Blend and Expression Web. Learn more »

  • Expression Encoder 3 provides the power of industry leading encoding, in a simple approachable interface to make it easy to prepare video for use in a variety of ways, including Silverlight on the Web.

You can test drive a 60-day free trial of the full suite here

Alternatively you can just download the individual design tools you need here.

Also available for download is the Ultimate Guide to Expression 3

To get your hands on this essential piece of design software all you have to do is leave a comment below and state what you think is the best feature of Microsoft Expression Studio 3. It really is that simple! Good Luck.

The closing date is 31st March 2010 and the winner will be drawn and notified by email on 1st April 2010.

*Product description courtesy of Microsoft.com site