ionoi

a technique to make things look cartoony in 3D graphics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel-shading

a very poetic collection of flash games

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Very different in style, very different in humor:

Scott McCloud // you have to see that one!

http://www.scottmccloud.com

Kyle Baker:

http://www.kylebaker.com/

Robert Crumb:

http://www.zubeworld.com/crumbmuseum/

Mary Fleener:

http://www.maryfleener.com/home.html

Jim Woodring:

http://www.jimwoodring.com/

Peter Kuper:

http://www.peterkuper.com

Paul Pope:

http://www.paulpope.com

Tom Gauld:

http://www.cabanonpress.com

Chris Ware:

http://www.hammergallery.com/Artists/Ware/ware_chris.htm

via modetwo

a very interesting article on rotoscoping, a technique to generate drawn film from prerecorded footage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

Generally, the entry for traditional animation sums it up quite pretty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation

Here the method of “cell animation” is explained

fastr is an online game where you can guess for the tag of photos, these come from flickr, if your fast you get more points

http://randomchaos.com/games/fastr/

a fine list of graphic design books, typo mainly

http://www.pingmag.jp/2007/01/22/toward-design-literacy/

*thanks rainer*

a simple software for creating mosaics out of many single pictures

http://www.ezmosaic.com/

edit:

here is an online application for mosaics too:

http://www.adelaider.com/image-mosaic/ 

you can find some interesting tutorials for expanding your software skills here:

http://www.ayatoweb.com/

not for readable text, but dirty graphics:-

http://www.dafont.com/

http://www.attheshow.org

http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/

*thanks joanna*

a search engine which searches various image databases for free pictures

http://yotophoto.com

*thanks mario*

if you are lucky you can find many expensive books on ebay,too

http://buecher.listings.ebay.de/Kunst-Kultur_Grafik-Illustration_
W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ113918QQsocmdZListingItemList

there are several bookstores within ebay:

http://stores.ebay.de/koppmedien

you can also buy whole collections of books:

http://buecher.listings.ebay.de/Sammlungen-Pakete_Buecherpakete-
10-bis-50-Stk_W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ46229QQsocmdZListingItemList

a very interesting ressource for symmetry and art from the darthmouth college
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit1/INTRO.html

http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/eBookshelf/index.html

http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com

the song “shoot the runner” from “kasabian” has a neat vector style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFcHuT-2sAw

http://www.wopc.co.uk/

a video of display dummies on skateboards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNWYqs-p1Gk&eurl=

a huge ressource of media material, anyone can contribute:
http://commons.wikimedia.org

mouse over for before and after effect

http://www.hypertouch.co.uk/

*seems to be offline, sorry*

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” – Pablo Picasso

*thanks sonja*

a blog offering links to sites which show statistics and information in a thrilling way:

http://infosthetics.com/

a visual interpretation of news (of the google news headers) :

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

http://eagereyes.org/ has also very many posts on the visual representation of information