core77

core77
i love core77. it's just a wicked site, full of information, articles, discussions, "clogger" (their community blog) and a photo gallery filled to the brim of great design exhibitions and festivals taking place around the world - so you can live vicariously through them by surfing their images as you sit in front of your monitor at work trying to overcome your designers' block.
a couple of articles to whet your palette:
Upping The Ante: Understanding business & design through casino poker
Visionary Stupidity
Taking the Middle Ground:
Massive design for the masses?
and most recently, a nicely written book review of Cracking the Whip by Ralph Caplan.
this is a great bookmark to have. not to mention their email newsletters. one of the only email subscriptions i keep bc they dont stuff my mailbox.