I agree with Philippe Starck that inspiration for design work is best found in music, books and science, not in design itself. But seeing other great design work may also trigger ideas, and it can certainly give motivation to realize your own ideas.
The following sites are worth checking out for the witty, beautiful and innovative [...]

To publish or to protect
Like many others, I have a few ideas that I am constantly playing around with. And like many others I even think that some of these ideas may one day be materialized into releasable products. It appears that one should worry more about waiting too long before publishing an idea [...]

Professional Tools
A well established trend for professional graphical software is that the interface should be neutral and occupy as little screen real estate as possible. This leaves the user free to focus on the artwork itself without unnecessary distractions. Adobe has a large collection of professional tools, and they have led the development of interface [...]

I was recently hired by Opera Software to give a course on television design for the team responsible for adapting the Opera web browser for Nintendo Wii. With more than six years of experience in designing interactive applications and motion graphics for television, I found that this was a great trigger [...]

I am often asked about a good book for learning Photoshop, so here it is once and for all.
My experience with Photoshop is professionally as a designer from version 4 and up since 1996, and before that as an amateur since version 2 in 1992.
When I got Adobe Photoshop for Photographers at work a while [...]

Personal experience
A colleague and I did a large project involving green screen photography last year, and here are a few words about what we learned from that experience.
There are quite a few sites with blue- and green screen tips and tutorials out there, but most concentrate on video, which is a little different from photography. [...]

After Autodesk acquired Alias this winter, many Maya users have been expressing concern about Maya’s future. I asked an Autodesk employee about this, and he said: “..you will see from the future releases that our dedication to the product is unwavering”.
So, what can we expect?
New releases are usually announced at Siggraph, and I [...]