Inspiration, information, advice and entertainment; what more do you want? The following blog list from our friends at Creative Stock offers us some help. In no particular order, we give you this shortlist:

• Veerle’s Blog – Veerle’s blog is a cheerful and extremely insightful mix and she has a way of writing engagingly about anything. Belgium’s tastiest export ever – except for Leffe Dark.
• N.Design Studio – N.Design Studio is the personal site of Nick La, an extravagantly talented who is Toronto based. His site is a well-stocked goodie-bag of inspiriation.
• BrandSpankingNew – Timothy Groves from Munich, Germany writes about everything from design, fine arts and the business of design while also maintaining a comprehensive and inspiring ‘Recent surfing’ list.
• Mark Boulton – Years experience in the fields of print, advertising, multimedia and web design offers up sound and authorative guidance on many of the core elements of good design. He is also a member of the BritPack collective.
• Mike Davidson – CEO of Newsvine, somehow finding time to run his highly successful personal site. Mike was one of the pioneers behind sIFR.
• 456 Berea street – Roger Johansson’s site cannot be rated highly enough. Impressive stuff.
• Hicksdesign – Jon Hicks posts an excellent and engaging blend of web and graphics related content on his site.
• Bartelme Design – Wolfgang is based in Austria specializes in top-notch interface and application design. Loads of cutting-edge web design and scripts and Mac OS information.
• Colly.com – ‘Simon Collison’s Illogical Waffle’ delivers some rather interesting and entertaining content. Plenty of articles for anyone interested in design – or life in general for that matter.
• Design Observer – Who’s Who of some of the most notable design writers from the last decade. Founding contributors include Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand and Rick Poynor. Regular input of well written articles on all facets of design and creative culture.