I work in advertising, but try not to make it my life. I love writing, art and design - and focus my time on these when I'm not working or hanging out with my family.
Cool Hunting has been a mainstay for many a trend hound over the last few years. They just relaunched their website (and killed their weekly emails, for those that were subscribed) with a pretty nice new layout.
Easy to navigate and damn good looking = success in my book.