The studio website of Hector Torres
Educator, graphic designer and typographer

Portfolio

Educational Resources

A small collection of places on the web that might be helpful to students learning graphic design.

Teaching Examples

I currently teach design courses at CSULA, SMC and USC. Click here to see some of my students work.

Free stock images

• Unsplash.com
• Pixabay.com
• Pexels.com

Font design

• glyphsapp.com is a Mac font editor
• fontgauntlet.com tool for testing variable fonts by ABC Dinamo
• wordmark.it lets you preview all the fonts installed in your computer

Font Foundries

• femme-type.com celebrates women in type design
• primary-foundry.com Los Angeles based type foundry
• ABC Dinamo is a Swiss / German type design foundry and design tools
• weltkern.com Swiss type foundry

3D design

• sketchfab.com download free or paid 3D models
• thingiverse.com download free 3D models for printing
• mixamo.com animate 3D characters
• blender.org opensource 3D software
• Dédouze great tutorials by French 3D illustator

Web design

• awwwards.com showcases award winning websites
• semplice.com is a Wordpress wbased web design
• webflow.com drag and drop web design online application
• code.visualstudio.com Free, Mac and PC code development application (I used this app to make this website)

Design organizations

• typethursday.org is a type meetup group where you can connect and get feedback on your type based designs
• aiga.org is the professional association for design

Graphic design resources

• typographicposters.com website with lots of type posters to look through
• peoplesgdarchive.org is an crowd sourced archive of graphic design

Design tools

• figma.com is a freemium tool for making wireframes and UI designs

Learning resources

• w3schools.com is a site with great explanations of HTML, CSS
• edx.org offers free online classes
• freecodecamp.org is a site where you can learn to code for free