I'm currently reading a set of 10 blogs that revolve around design/branding/user experience, as I want to improve my skills there. I wrote up a post with links to them here: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2011/05/reading-my-way-to-better-d...

(And to be meta about it, I based that list of blogs on a previous hackernews thread: https://hackertimes.com/item?id=1103578)