1. An Interview with .Zer0.
   A brief IM interview I conducted with .Zer0. a little under a month ago discussing everything from Eminence, his background in skinning, to what he has coming up next.  It's a pretty interesting look at the artist behind one of the most popular skins to grace WinCustomize in quite a while.
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2. SkinStudio Tutorial - Creating a Taskbar
   A big part of SotM is going to be tips and hints from the selected skinners on how they actually do the things they do to create skins, icons, cursors etc.  .Zer0. was kind enough to write up a mini-tutorial on how to use SkinStudio to skin your taskbar in Windows. 
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Additionally, on August 20th, .Zer0. released his final update to Eminence with a number of tweaks and improvements such as a skinned "Loading" screen, and a new Start Menu button.  If you're a fan of Eminence, be sure to check it out.

Again, I'd like to say thanks to .Zer0. for being our guinea pig as the first Skinner of the Month.  He's helped set a very high bar for future designees to follow, I can only hope we end up with content as good as this going forward.