
Lars Harmsen Magma Brand Design
Lars Harmsen is associate and creative director of MAGMA Brand Design in Karlsruhe (founded in 1996 with Ulrich Weiss and Florian Gärtner). The focal point of his work is corporate and editorial design. He is also partner and creative director for the Munich agency Melville Brand Design (associated office with MAGMA).
He is founder of Volcano-Type, a font label which distributes over 200 fonts. In 2004 he launched the typography weblog Slanted and a year later the quarterly published Slanted magazine.
Harmsen is author of design and typography books. In 2004, Versus (DGV- Die Gestalten Verlag) received numerous awards (Red Dot, Most Beautiful German Books, Berlin Type). The book Bastard - Choose my identity (Actar, bastard-project.com) published in 2006, examines cultural identities and the influence of globalization and web on culture and design. 2009 and 2010 he published Typodarium, a calendar presenting a new font each day.
Lars Harmsen teaches corporate and editorial design at the School of Design in Pforzheim. Furthermore, he is a sought-after speaker for many conferences (Face-to-Face/Stuttgart, Typo Berlin, Colophon, European Design Conference, ICTVC etc).
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