Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
About Me
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: About Me
Overview
“First of all, I would like to introduce myself and tell you how I got to where I am today via a few detours. In this course I will talk a lot about Slanted Publishers and show you what was created there. Therefore, in this lesson I will also give insights into my teaching at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and into other projects.”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine. Discover how magazines are designed alongside the founder and editor of Slanted Publishers, and learn to tell stories through layout, color, and typography.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hello. i'm Lars Harmsen. I would like to take a moment to introduce myself to you. Traveling is a way for me to explore not only my own identity but also to connect with diverse people and cultures. The friendships I've formed with individuals I've met during my journeys have been truly And many of these individuals have now joined the Slanted Community. making them colleagues with whom I collaborate regularly. And so. quite a few of these projects have come about this way. For example. i once took a trip across the Atlantic. Those were about two weeks on the container ship. It was quite lo...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
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Art Direction, Branding & Identity, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Storytelling
Lars Harmsen
A course by Lars Harmsen
Lars Harmsen is a creative director from Munich, Germany. Following an internship as a print media designer, he founded the design agency MAGMA while still studying visual communication. He is also a founding partner of the creative agency Melville Brand Designs. In 1996, he created Volcano Type, an independent font foundry with more than 200 different typefaces. In 2004, he started the web blog project Slanted, dedicated to typography and design, which was complemented by a magazine under the same name the following year. This project has grown into what is today Slanted Publishers, an independent publishing and communication company. In addition to his many endeavors, Lars has been teaching design and typography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund since 2011.
His work, recognized at home and abroad, focuses on typography as well as corporate and editorial design. He is also chief curator of the artist's book series 100for10 and designer of Makers Bible. He is the author and designer of many photography, typography, and design books, including Yearbook of Type, Typodarium, Photodarium, and numerous photo books.
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