1. Package design

Have a look at these lovely package designs, listed at Abduzeedo.

2. Easy type art with Wordle

Wordle allows you to create beautiful typographical art with the texts of your choice. You can tweak it by using parameters like typeface, color schemes, orientation etc.
The results are often amazing.

3. Effective communication in Web design

This article at Smashing Magazine points out what it takes to achieve clear and effective communication in Web design. Quite an extensive list, very interesting read.

4. Free wordpress personal blog themes

For your inspiration, or for using it for your blog, here is a list of 50 free wordpress themes at WPZOOM.

5. Color shift in Photoshop

This article at Viget Labs is a must read! I have struggled with the The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift myself many times.
They provide a (more or less working) solution to this nasty issue.