Draft:Lars Harmsen

 is a Professor of Typography and Design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund since 2011. . He is the co-founder of Slanted Publishers.

Career
After completing an apprenticeship as a silk screen frame manufacturer, Lars Harmsen studied visual communication in Basel and at Pforzheim University. During his studies, he founded the design agency MAGMA in Karlsruhe in 1995.

In 1996, he founded the font publisher Volcano-Type.

In 2004, he co-founded the publishing house Slanted Publishers. It's publications won awards in national and international design competitions. Among others it received the Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany) (Silver, 2009) and the German Design Award (2018) for its book on Helsinki.

The focus of Harmsen's work is on typography, corporate, and editorial design. He worked as a creative director of MAGMA untill 2014.

Since 2008, he acted partner and creative director at MELVILLE Brand Design in Munich

In 2018, he was Associate Professor of Art and Design at the American University of Sharjah.