Lars Harmsen
Partner, Creative Director
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLars Harmsen is a Munich-based creative director, publisher and professor with over 25 years shaping typography, editorial and corporate design across Europe. Founder of MAGMA and now partner at MELVILLE Brand Design, he also launched the influential Slanted blog and Slanted Magazine, later expanding into Slanted Publishers and the Volcano-Type font label. As a professor of typography and editorial design at FH Dortmund and guest lecturer internationally, he combines teaching with hands-on studio practice and curated print projects like Poster Rex, which has produced a 3,000-strong silk-screen poster collection. His work bridges craft and scholarship—authoring design publications, speaking globally, and running print workshops that cultivate local artistic collaboration. Less obvious: alongside high-profile editorial work he sustains small-batch, artisanal printmaking that feeds both community engagement and his studio’s experimental research in type and poster design.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, communication design, 1,0, Diplom, communication design, 1,0 at Hochschule Pforzheim - Gestaltung, Technik, Wirtschaft und RechtVorkurs, Vorkurs at Kunstgewerbeschule Basel / CH
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (58)
kotlin10
world-of-warcraft10
instant-messaging10
icq10
flash10
azerothcore10
android-app10
csv10
irc10
server10
communicator10
material-design-lite9
modular9
xmpp9
java9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cubei/flashcards
Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
Simple flash card android app with csv files as input.
Contributions:3 releases, 121 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 9 months
csvandroidflashandroid-appcsv-files
cubei/SpaceCowboy
Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
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