Where do you go for inspiration?

I often look through templatemonster.com for different ideas. Lots of junk on there, but some good stuff.

Obviously stuff does catch my eye on sites i visit, but most of the inspiration i get is from being out and about, sometimes in furniture stores etc, i'll see some colours that work well on cushions or something so i'll take a pic on my phone and look at it later to try em out. Posters on buses and trains are another. I don't just actively look online for inspiration really.

I'm a bit like DaveyBoy, motorbikes have neat colour schemes, and in print - junk mail can give some neat ideas, after all their job is to attract your attention and make you read straight away. Buses also, bus stops (they have posters on the sides of them), taxis and bill boards and even television adverts.
The colours on my html site were inspired from a Mac iron (funny picture on joke site)

I used to like cssvault.com but they don't really update it anymore.

Like davey and busy I take inspiration from the outdoors, especially nature, I like photography and gardening as a hobby. So when I go out I see wonderful natural combos in them, also I go out to the beach and mountains in the weekends, more inspirations there too... Although in the net, what megan has listed pretty much are the places I consult too...

I like to go to those sites a lot when I need specific ideas. Like how to make a heading more interesting, or what to do with the navigation bar.

i usually visit the sites of those who ask for review of their sites in different forums
and get inspiration from good sites among them.

linkdup.com

lol the latest site i'm doing came from me falling asleep on the train and waking up to see this large billboard on the way to manchester as it pulled into piccadilly. class where sites can originate

Hope it's not stealing though but there is so many different sites and ideas to go with..try this page http://www.thefwa.com/ it's really incredible what people can do sometimes

You guys have pretty much listed all of the sites I would have mentioned! I espicially like cssvault.com.

cabedge.com - I love their sites. Stylish, simple, but with impact. I highly recommend checking their site and portfolio.

Blue

http://www.designmeltdown.com/ - I just found this site last week. Tons of examples of certain techniques or colour schemes. Great if you have some idea of a style or colour you want to use but want some more ideas.

Thanks for the link Meg... I like the way they explain combos...

I usually go to http://www.oswd.org/ or http://www.templatesbox.com/templates2.htm because the templates can be downloaded for free. And also this site http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/ but it only offers a few templates.

I was just online looking for some more design inspiration sites, and found these I thought I'd share. (Megan, any chance of updating the first post in this thread to include all that have been posted?)

http://www.stylegala.com/archive/
http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/
http://www.cwd.dk/
http://bestwebgallery.com/
http://www.digitalthread.com/webdesign/
http://css-galleries.com/
http://www.thebestdesigns.com/
http://www.css-website.com/
http://www.prowebart.net/
http://www.cssheaven.com/
http://www.csselite.com/
http://www.cssclip.com/
http://www.roscripts.com/CSS_creme_of_the_month-123.html

Use flickr.com or take a relaxing bath ..

I surf around a lot. I think some very really good web designing inspires me. I like the designs of designdisease.com http://www.designdisease.com/

http://www.coolhomepages.com - sometimes it disappoints me tho cuz they are so cutting edge and clean I'm like wow why do I even try.

I really like stumbleUpon too. Not always the best for design, but good content for sure.

Another site I like is The Daily Slurp (from Design Meltdown). I subscribe to the RSS feed so I just see one site a day. Easy to manage.

I haven't visited Cool Homepages in years!! I thought for awhile they were getting too diluted and too into the flash/mystery meat/ "cool but dumb" sort of thing.