You're soaking in them. Many of the sites produced by the people featured on this site have resulted in a lot of the work I've done. The work of Auriea Harvey of Entropy8 and Josh Feldman of Prophet Communications in particular inspired me to believe that I too could do what they were doing. I'm also a big fan of David Carson's work...both visually and conceptually. A lot of people knock his stuff as being too popular and messy to the point of being ridiculous, but if you stop being so pretentious and take a minute to look at some of what he does, there's a great deal of thought going on there.