Patrick Gunderson is an renowned artist who mainly uses the power of ActionScript to generate his work. He also dabbles in Processing and other programmatic generation tools.

He's kindly allowed Durban AUG to use his work in the promotion of our events, so many thanks to him for this! 

For each event, I'll be posting a new DAUG wallpaper here selected from his catalogue.

Take some time out of your day to enjoy some of Pat's amazing work on his blog, here.

And here's the December wallpaper, 'Etude 1 in Yellow and Red and ActionScript'. It's 1920x1080 so should scale down well to lower resolutions. Enjoy!

By popular request (ok ok, just Julian) here's the DAUG buttons I mentioned in the October meeting.

Please do spread the word of the DAUG as best you can (woof), looking forward to introducing even more Durban creatives and developers at the next meeting.

Medium Button

150px * 57px

Code to include in your page:

<a href="http://tinyurl.com/durbanaug" title="DAUG: Durban Adobe User Group" 
target="_self">
<img style="border: 0;" src="http://www.keyline.co.za/daug/daug150_57.gif" 
alt="DAUG: Durban Adobe User Group" width="150" height="57" />
</a>

Square Button

100px * 100px

Code to include in your page:

<a href="http://tinyurl.com/durbanaug" title="DAUG: Durban Adobe User Group" 
target="_self">
<img style="border: 0;" src="http://www.keyline.co.za/daug/daug100_100.gif" 
alt="DAUG: Durban Adobe User Group" width="100" height="100" />
</a>

A quick message to say how enjoyable it was to get together with you all at the first DAUG last night. I have a great feeling about the future of the group from the enthusiasm and skills of those who came along.

It was great to meet Chris M, Chris L, Caryn, Rodney, Julian, Emrys, Vernon, Hayden, John, JP, Esthera, Andre & Karen.

Thanks to Skye, Les & Michelle from Keyline for support, grub and setting up the space.

...and thanks to Toni who was teaching in the room next door for putting up with us!

Please let me know if I missed you in the list above (I've a feeling there are a couple missing..?), as these are the people I'm putting in the draw for the $2100 Adobe software raffle. You'll be combined with those who attend the next meetup in December (First Thursday, the 3rd December 2009) and someone will win the software in time for Xmas :)

Here's a snap from the October meet.

Keyline Graphics
Suite 10 Bexhill - Ground floor
453 Windermere Road
Durban
4001
Map: http://www.keyline.co.za/contact-us.html

Agenda:

1. Welcome
2. Future direction of DAUG and call for speakers
3. DAUG benefits + Adobe Software Raffle Info
4. 25 minute Demo: Ajaxian Dreamweaving (Matt Would)
5. Networking and Snacks
6. Show and tell (opportunity for participants to demo / announce your own projects
7. Close

Info on the demo:

The demonstration will cover some of the different ways Ajax works in Dreamweaver to create menus, tabbed areas, effects, galleries and more. I'll make it as relvant as possible to all backgrounds.

For example, designers will appreciate the way they can create richly interactive user interface elements for websites quickly and ActionScripters will be able to see how they can use existing skills in a HTML website, to manipulate elements on the page.