here are some things that i have been looking at over the past summer, since portfolio review i have tried to look at everything i can possibly get my hands on and try to not be so restricted:
for those who like photography, here is an amazing photographer named Erick Anderson, his focus is on people, mostly well known musicians and such but his work is absolutely amazing, check it out at, eafoto.com
i am also interested in book covers and found a great site dedicated to book covers, their authors and their designers, it is absolutely endless with very intelligent crit. sessions with some very talented professional designers, cover.com
another site thats worth checking out is experimentaljetset.com it has an endless archive of type and other design ideas 
non-format.com has some really really amazing work as well
ffffound.com has some great links to well known designers and has helped me a lot int he past 
there are a lot of good blogs that are out there about design, some of which i have found are, villatype.blogspot.com this one has some good links to found/environmental typography, helps with what were working on in type class and nytimesbooks.blogspot.com is another blog site that is often times too much for me to grasp but other times is helpful
some other random sites i like are:paulsahre.com which has some good book cover design
rodgrigocorral.com -great designer!!! he did the million little pieces book cover by james fre
kulickdesign.com aother great designer, did a brave new world book cover 
milanbozic.com -really great website and work
for some great images of hand drawn illustrations check out david choe’ website, davidchoe.com
john zai has a great blog with a lot of good work at johnzai.com
