Design
Mark Boulton
Mark Boulton’s website includes good articles on basic typography and grids.
LogoLounge.com
Like logotypes?
Typophile.com
Love type?
Thinking With Type
Nice.
Computer Arts
One way to keep up to speed.
Web design and development
Web Design From Scratch
If you’re new to web design you will find this very useful.
A List Apart
Well- known site, full of absorbing articles — for more advanced users.
Design Meltdown
Quote “design elements, trends, and problems in web design” unquote.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
Typography matters.
Digital art
Worth1000
Legendary showcase for Photoshopping genius.
Photoshop Disasters
And here’s the other side of the coin.
Culture, etc
Steve Bell
Archive of the cartoonist’s work on Guardian Unlimited.
www.daumier.org
Not many people can draw like Honoré Daumier. This site will start you off.
DeviantART
Mostly adolescent, but there’s a lot of good stuff here too.
Illustration Art
David Apatoff's illustration blog is very nourishing (despite being rather hard on Ware and Spiegelman).
Fun
Judge a Book by its Cover
This site is priceless.