A few websites I found that I thought were pretty rad awesome.

Alex Dukal-Illustrator
http://www.circografico.com.ar/
I enjoyed this website because I thought it was visually interesting without being too cluttered and also easily portrayed the personality and style of the illustrator. The hierarchy was also very well done and it was easy to get around.

Justyna Faucets
http://www.justynacollections.com/
This site was very clean, neat and simple. Still, it also got out the information that was needed and the style reflected the elegant product it was attempting to sell.

Monrovia-Plants
http://www.monrovia.com/
It was harder than I thought to find good websites that was relevant to my topic, but this page did a great job. It was easy and interesting to navigate and reflected the product that it wanted to sell. It was very organic and fun, yet still mature.

Organic, Inc.
www.organic.com
I really enjoyed the beautiful integration of illustrations, photography, type and motion on this site. It maybe moved a little to much for my personal tastes, but I was still impressed.

Artocracy
http://www.artocracy.org
The way the tabs/buckets worked were fantastic! So simple but so easy to use and visually user-friendly.

Oddwall: Gallery of the Streets
www.oddwall.com
The organization of the photographs were very well done and visually pleasing.

The Los Angeles Film School
http://www.lafilm.com/flash/index.html
The way that an entire environment builds up in front of your eyes, then also becomes an interesting navigation site is awesome! It also reflects L.A. well, minus the smog, traffic, dirtiness, and other not so pleasant aspects of the city.

Veer
www.veer.com
It wasn't necessarily my favorite site visually, but the way that it organized such a massive amount of links and information was impressive and definitely something to take a good look at.

Novalis: Plants that Work
www.plantsthatwork.com
This site also wasn't very interesting visually (though compared to most plant sites, it could be considered a masterpiece), but the way that it could search and look up the right kind of plant based on what the user was looking for is very similar to what would be helpful on my site.

Root for your City
http://rootforourcity.amexnetwork.com
The logo and heading used for this site is quite similar to what we were thinking of for our site as is the style and placement of the type.