…but this free eBook will get you a lot closer to that goal. In order to shorten the time until the next part of Project WordPress (which is coming up in the next few days), we want to point this excellent resource out to you:

Free Type Classification eBook by Jacob Cass

This 27-page eBook covers the 10 classifications of type and is worked up in a beautiful way. In any case, it’s worth a download. Here’s what Jacob says about it:

This book goes through the 10 type classifications with a brief history as well as the key characteristics of each. This book has been made to come back to for easy referencing and it looks great printed as well.

Jacob is a talented designer and we like his work very much. He blogs at Just Creative Design and released this great resource just a few days ago.

We like to spread some link love every now and then - and give you a heads up on cool sites and design blogs we like. Jacob is definitely a designer and blogger worth mentioning in our field.

In order to get the Free Type Classification eBook, you’ll need to subscribe to JCD’s RSS feed. There’s a password at the bottom of the feed which will give you access to the download page.

You can read more about the Free Type Classification eBook in this post on Just Creative Design. Go check it out!

Here’s a great add to your bookmarks: we came across the newly launched Design Resources Search Engine the other day, which we’d like to point you to real quick. Jump over and take a look: the Google custom search crawls through the who’s who of the web’s graphic design sites, communities and blogs. It’s better than your standard Google search, because the results don’t show Splogs and other crap, but only search results from sites that have been carefully collected by the web designer Sacha Greif, the creator of the search engine - including our site :)

Thanks for this great resource, Sacha!

Us designers are of special blood. We need food - yes, yes, we also ingest “normal” food like everybody else (at least that’s what we should do), but more importantly, we need food for our creative brains. And of that we need a lot. In fact, the nature of our jobs makes us depend on valuable resources we can build upon, tweak, implement, use, modify, adjust, slam, bawl out. Kinda.

This is where resources come in handy. Every designer we know has their own collection of resources, either big or bigger, and spends a lot of time searching for pictures, images, fonts, vectors, videos, and other stuff.

In this post, we’ll give you Vibr8bros’ top Photo, Vector and Flash stock sites on the web. The post also contains some affiliate links. But be warned: knowing where we get our stuff from doesn’t necessarily make you a good designer. It can make things easier for you - but awesome resources don’t give you the knowledge and skills you need to become an awesome designer. You’ll have to stick around on our blog a lil’ longer for that ;)

Let’s get it on then, shall we? Read on…