Core 77

http://www.core77.com/

Since 1995 Core77.com has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals. Core77 publishes articles, discussion forums, an extensive event calendar, hosts portfolios, job listings, a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services. Core77 provides a gathering point for designers and enthusiasts alike by producing design competitions, lecture series, parties, and exhibits.

Core 77 is great networking website that i have use before on a numerous occations, I find the site to be very useful on all things product design.

Product Designers Flash Websites

The two links below are two leading product design companies that use flash to present their websites.

http://www.seymourpowell.com/

http://www.4dproducts.co.uk/

Tokyo Flash

http://www.tokyoflash.com/blog/2011/01/cool-sliding-concept-wrist-watch-design/

This is a link to a product designers website uses flash. I like the way the designers has used a flash animation to show how the product works. I could possibility use this technique in the future.

Effective Filing

http://www.timethoughts.com/timemanagement/effective-filing.htm

This looks at how effectiveness simple filing is. even the use of a cheap ring binder file and dividers act as effective sources of organisation.

Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training - explored

http://www.lynda.com/tutorial/59964

This is a link to the Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training page. This page shows a table of contents of the chapters and what they cover. although the tutorial covers everything you need to know about flash I am not going to use all the videos as i feel they are not necessary with my professional development.

Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training Introduction

Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training

This link is to a video from lynda.com on Flash Professional CS5. This video is just the introduction to what the series of videos will cover.

Adobe TV

http://tv.adobe.com/

Adobe TV is Adobe's online TV network, offering free training, inspiration, and information about the latest Adobe products & services. i found this site to be extremely helpful as it gave me the opportunity to download some templates with I could later use to complete some tutorials on Lynda.com