Me and Waves worked on this ages ago but the competition doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment and I felt like showing our progress so far as it is nearly finished. Anyway, comments much appreciated, still not quite finished but not to far off.
you got the right color idea but the blue attracts the eye to much..tone it down a bit and you got yourself a nice template..
You should give the blue bars the same gradient as the button bar. That, or just make it a darker, grayer blue.
nice lookin, but i will agree with the others on that the blue is a little rough on the old peepers, gj on on the layout of it though