1. good design?

http://www.csszengarden.com/
The CSS zen garden is an interesting place to see what is new and exciting with css based web design.

http://www.flashbelt.com/
flashbelt is a good place to start to learn about flash web design.

http://www.friendswithyou.com/
Cool artists and crazy concept for their toys, art, and ideas.

2. not so good design?

www.springboardforthearts.org
navigates ok, not so visual for an arts org.

www.smahc.org
see above...

www.walkerart.org
---of course, nice design, but i have an issue- we'll talk.

3. what's important to me?
www.mnartists.org/
--networking and info is important..
minneapolis.craigslist.org/
--nothing to look at, but it does what it needs to do.

Like most everyone, I have a few places I start, and then I'm off on the hunt for "info" !