Sam Crisco has been in the web design business since 2000 after graduating from the University of Colorado with a degree in Fine Art. After working for a small firm for a year, Crisco decided to take the big step into the world of freelance and created his current company, Digital Palette LLC. As owner and creative director, he enjoys creative design, especially Photoshop layouts, Flash layouts and dabbling in 3D animation. Lately, he has added coding in AS3 to that list, however, the design aspect is his real passion. Digital Palette has an extensive portfolio with a wide variety of subject matter. The following examples are just a couple of snippets from his portfolio: Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery (www.mountainsunpub.com) and piZap (http://pizap.com). We asked Crisco what web trends have caught his eye and it seems RIAs are something that he has come to love. He told us, “I think that the trend is going to be Flex/Silverlight/AIR over the next five years, and we will slowly move away from HTML-based layouts”.