…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 we go folks, it’s time for some free Photoshop brushes! Here’s a set for you to play with.

These Photoshop brushes are high-resolution light strangs. The set contains six large brushes for you to use with Adobe Photoshop. You can see how the brushes look and download them after the jump! Read on…

Yet another download: Free Vector Badges saying “NEW”.

While we were working on a print ad for one of our clients who wanted a web 2.0ish design (yes, yes, we know…), we came up with a few vector badges stating the word “new”. We ended up using a quite colorful, yet simplistic version of the badge which represented the style our client wanted.

So what should we do with the other badges? Keep them for future “new” badges? Keep them for possible mutation into other badges or logos? Well, no sir! We decided to add a few more and post them here. Read on…

If you’re in photography, this might be one of the most important rules to follow. If this rule is new to you, stick around, as the Rule of Thirds applies to designers as well. In this tutorial, we will trim Adobe Photoshop for the Rule of Thirds - making your designs look better and more appealing.

A photograph, or artwork, is more appealing to the eye if the designer follows the Rule of Thirds. The rule states that by dividing an image with two vertical and two horizontal lines into nine equal rectangles, the intersections of these lines form the four preferred spots for an image’s focal point(s). Sounds confusing? It’s not, really - just read The 5 Rules of Composition over at our sister blog Nubloo.com.

Now we will turn this into practice by creating a Rule of Thirds template for Photoshop. In the end, you’ll have a custom shape which you can apply to any of your artwork in an instant, and use it to enhance your work. Read on…

With this Photoshop tutorial (including free PSD template), you can add the page peel effect to any of your images in just one easy step.

Page peel? What’s this again?

By adding the page peel effect to an image, you can make it look like a “real page” - so to speak. Now, you can do it with no hassle by using our free Photoshop template.

Read on…