The Palm Beach Macintosh User Group

Our next meeting is 6:30 P.M., Wednesday, May 21, 2008, at the West Palm Beach City Library, 100 Clematis Street, in Downtown West Palm Beach. Look here for a map.

This month's speaker will be Mel Abfier . PBMUG member Mel Abfier has been working as a Creative Director and graphic designer for the past 48 years. Throughout his memorable career, he has worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies based in New York, most notably Revlon and House & Garden Magazine. Mel also worked for 25 years as a package designer for women's fragrances at Chesebrough-Pond's USA in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Since "retiring" 10 years ago, he and his wife, Fran, moved to Florida, where Mel has been actively designing coffee table books for StarGroup International, a public relations company with a book division located in Lake Park, Florida. Mel has designed over 45 books and continues to stay active creating brochures, logos and anything else that needs to be designed.

Come join us at the May meeting May 21, where Mel will demonstrate how he uses Quark, InDesign CS2, Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Illustrator CS2 to perform his desktop publishing