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As Associate Professor at Art Center in Pasadena Tyrone Drake is actively pushing cultural standards of type and typography. Prior to being accepted to the ArtCenter College of Design graphic design program in the mid ’90s he took studied design at other schools, where where he was introduced to typography and lettering.

Get inspired, boost your technique and understand photography more broadly with these classic and modern photography titles.

Working on your photography skills isn’t just something you do at the beginning; it’s a job for life. While growing as a photographer is as much about inspiration and vision as it is about learning and refining techniques. A good photography book can provide both in abundance and to help you out; we’ve curated a list of the ten best on the market today.

All creative professionals can benefit from having an online portfolio. They’re great for attracting new clients. And they can even provide a trip down memory lane. It’s a chance to see how far you’ve come.

But it’s possible to obsess over a portfolio a little too much. For example, sometimes we add features just because they look good. It could be a sign of mixed priorities. Are you designing to serve your current client or to impress the next one?

Esperanza Manzanera, known in the art world as Velmock, is a multifaceted visual artist and high school philosophy teacher based in Granada. Her artistic repertoire includes digital collage, photo editing, and a variety of other techniques that she uses to craft surreal and expressionist images.

Laurie Lipton, a New York native, has been expressing herself through the medium of drawing since she was four years old. She made history as the first individual to graduate with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors) from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania. After spending 36 years living in various countries across Europe, including Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, and London, she has recently returned to her home country, the USA.

Between the hours of 7 a.m. to 12:20 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, you will find a group of students at Los Angeles Trade Tech College painstakingly painting small black lines onto large sheets of butcher paper. It’s a unique and peculiar sight, unlike any other you will come upon at another college— and that’s because this is the only class of its kind in the country.

Welcome to LATTC’s famed Sign Graphics program, which has been taught at the college since 1924. It’s said that LATTC itself was founded around this course, and then expanded its class offerings from there.