So other than the basic css, logo & web gallery sites... What are your undiscovered gems for finding great web and graphic design inspiration?

Discovered http://emberapp.com/ a little bit ago and love it.

Andy Rutledge's blog. Some of his articles I completely disagree with, but there's also a lot of great wisdom in there. It's not a showcase site, it's... lessons? in how to think and react with the design world.

Some of my favorite articles:
http://www.andyrutledge.com/on-inspiration.php
http://www.andyrutledge.com/criticism.php
http://www.andyrutledge.com/human-frailty-and-design-professionalism.php
http://www.andyrutledge.com/dumbest-guys-in-the-room.php

My inspiration depends what kind of project is it,
usually i go to
smashingmagazine and there search like colours, templates etc,
another site en bbc.com ...

Gotta love http://www.smashingmagazine.com . :3♥

I keep an "inspirations" file. When I come across a website I like, I take a screenshot and save it. Sometimes I'll write on it what I liked about it.. menu, colors, design, whatever.

I also love to browse this site
http://www.illustrationweb.com/illustrators/all.asp

It's not a webdesign site, but it sure gives me a lot of creative inspiration no matter what I am doing... painting, sewing, website.

My inspirations comes direct from clients.
I consider myself a tool my clients get to play with. I do offer advice and suggestions and try to steer clients right BUT, they know what they like and its my job to make them something they like...
Sometimes I win, sometimes I cringe when I deliver the product and they are happy about it. Some might argue that I'm failing my clients by not being %100 on task with best design practices. I wont argue that they are wrong.. because thats a topic open for debate, and Im open to accepting opinion.
This is just what works between myself and my clients in my niche
I have one little tool at my disposal, that we all have but mostly don't use.... empathy.. I read into my clients to extract what direction they are feeling, then I try to blend that with my hand and known web design rules.
I ask that clients give me links to their existing sites or profiles and then links to a few sites they like telling me what they like about them.
When Im designing for someone else. Im a paint brush.. The whole process takes lots longer I guess having many down time hours spent on just the thought and client communication even before hire from having to work with a blank canvas and empty mind every project...lol.. probably why Im always broke and having to work twice as hard for half the money :))
I often end up with designs etc, that I don't like.. thats life.

lol.. just to add. I found this site when trying to establish colors for a client, he described something and I looked it up here, he said bingo... and another client that wanted fuchsia .. well what shade what tone..and was it something she called fuchsia and ill call lavender.. that happens...unless they give me a hex or an image with an exact shade its open for error.. and then eg.. this color isn't exactly best web practice, its what the client wants but...( too often pale shades and cross colors turn green-ish when seen on some machine with a restricted output.

my best inspiration came from video games :p

haha, I didn't click the link :) I get my inspiration from the music i listen to all day long.

lol. I haven't got anything against link building, in fact I do it myself when a client thinks they want to climb the Google ranks, but when its irrelevant like this it becomes spam, and makes them look like an amateur.
Spamming is not only annoying its thieving when they charge clients for crap that is more likely to get them ignored instead of ahead.

@StormGirl, yes, it is spam. Whenever you see it, click on the button with the red ! to report it. (Once upon a time, that button said Report. I wish it still did.) I've already reported this one.

Colourlovers is my favorite website! I use it all the time to check, get and make colors for my blogs. This is my first post, although I have voted for many colors. Although I have several websites, one is devoted to drawing, and is called Prismacolor Pencils.

This site aggregates a lot of nice links about web and graphic design as well as many other things about news and technology.

Nice Aggregator

Hallo

Thanks already showed some inspiration for us.

There's a site called http://www.2advanced.com

It's really amazing. Everything on there is done using Adobe Flash and ColdFusion. they even have websites for travel agencies and restaurants. It shows you what kind of layout they used. Really awesome! The navigate looks pretty neat too though I have to admit, it's pretty confusing

Check out http://www.2advanced.com/#portfolio/bytype/websites&id=205

To view some of their work.

Wow, I can't believe that a couple months later and nobody addeds the absolute best: deviantart.com ... includes a thriving community that will give you feedback on any type of art you're working on, lots of free photoshop/illustrator patterns/styles/ore, too. Too much to describe .. just check it out :)

I'd add sites such as ffffound!, we ♥ it or piccsy (the one I actually use ^ ^ ), similar to the already mentioned emberapp and dribbble.

I've definitely got a bunch of different standbys--but two that haven't been mentioned that are absolute gems are: Behance Network and one I recently discovered is Web Creme. They're both representing drastically different views of the design world but are both rock solid sources of inspiration!

the best one that has worked for me is
www.deviantart.com

http://sweet-station.com/
This one covers current Art, Architecture, Advertising, etc.
I check it routinely.