There is QT Creator a similar thing to visual basic. You could definitely make the wallet look like those screen shots using it.
Here's a link to a program written in QT. (just like the darkcoin wallet)
https://amarok.kde.org/en/screenshotsEdit Edit: Here is the showcase for QT developed apps/gui's
http://showroom.qt-project.org/Edit: Mmmm donuts...
QT4 is going to struggle slightly with the some bits of the wallet design as it stands as posted above, but you could get pretty close. And QT designer is only like Visual Basic in that it produces truly horrible code - although actually it just produces XML, which when run through your UIC script produces truly horrible code.
It's not the QT part that's difficult though, it's the C++ re-write of the existing wallet, which is going to be fairly major and needs someone pretty experienced.
I'm actually hoping Evan and the team get stuck into Electrum-DRK first, it fits better with the whole MN system.
Lol that's a pretty good summary.