I have a list of pages that I find inspiring. The thread link and http://dribbble.com/ are great to find new ones.

Every once in awhile, I'll look through them and try to emulate something that is within my reach.

Here's a few recent ones:

http://dustincurtis.com/press_on.html

http://nerdcommunications.com/

http://www.thecleanestline.com/

http://letteringjs.com/

I started learning Photoshop & Illustrator about a week ago. Youtube is great for tutorials on specific things such as tool usage, colors.

Just found this one for Illustrator: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/tutorials

Fonts are also quite important to catch people's eye. I'm dabbling in the free stuff now, but I think TypeKit is also quite nice.

http://code.google.com/webfonts