Cool question!
For a different angle, I recommend cutebun's tutorial on this board for making OBW quilts (one-block wonders). They look terribly complex and advanced, but the actual cutting and piecing side of them is easy as pie and they are HUGE fun to make. There are books for them (if you want books on your shelf you might like to look for "one block wonders" or "stack 'n whack" on amazon), but to be honest I think cutebuns teaches them in a more accessible way.
So if you like the look of OBW quilts (search OBW and browse through them in the pictures section), check out cutebuns "tiptoe through hexagons" threads. They have the tutorial, together with many many pictures of the beauties people are currently making.