Slanted Publishers is an inter­na­tion­ally active pub­lish­ing and media house found­ed in 2014 by Lars Harmsen and Julia Kahl. They publish the award-winning print mag­a­zine Slanted, cov­er­ing inter­na­tional de­vel­op­ments in design and culture twice a year.

Since its establishment in 2004, the daily Slanted blog highlights events and news from an inter­na­tional design scene and showcases in­spir­ing port­folios from all over the world. Over the years, more than 200 video inter­views with design­ers and entre­pre­neurs have been made, form­ing an archive that bears witness to our time.

In addition to the Slanted blog and mag­a­zine, Slanted Publishers ini­ti­ates and creates pro­jects such as the Year­book of Type, tear-off cal­en­dars Typo­darium and Photo­dar­ium, inde­pen­dent type foundry Vol­cano­Type and others.

Slanted's pub­lish­ing pro­gram reflects their own di­verse in­ter­ests, focusing on con­tem­po­rary design and cul­ture, work­ing closely with editors and authors to pro­duce out­stand­ing pub­li­ca­tions with mean­ing­ful content and high quality. These publications can be found in the Slanted Shop along­side other extra­or­di­nary products by young design talents and es­tab­lished pro­ducers from all over the world.

Slanted was born from great passion and has made a name for itself across the globe. Its design is vi­brant and in­spir­ing, its phi­los­o­phy open mind­ed, tolerant, and curious.

Julia Kahl joined the Slanted project in 2007. She stud­ied Communication Design at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences in Darm­stadt and lives and works in Karls­ruhe.

In 2014 she set up the pub­lish­ing and media house Slanted Publ­ish­ers together with Lars. She now over­sees the com­mer­cial side of the busi­ness and all ed­i­to­r­ial content across online and print. Besides she teaches in the fields of typog­ra­phy and ed­i­to­r­ial design at dif­fer­ent uni­versities.

Lars Harmsen initiated the Slanted blog as a side project in 2004 which was followed by the first printed issue in 2005. He studied Visual Com­mu­ni­ca­tion in Basel and Pforz­heim, already found­ing the design agency MAGMA in Karls­ruhe during his time as a student.

2014 he moved to Munich as a partner and creative director of Melville Brand Design. Since 2011 he has been a teacher for con­cept, layout and typog­ra­phy at the University of Dort­mund. His na­tion­ally and inter­na­tion­ally award-winning work focuses on typog­ra­phy, cor­po­rate and edi­to­r­ial design.

Beyond that he writes for a variety of design and typog­ra­phy pub­li­ca­tions. In 2014 he set up the pub­lishing and media house Slanted Publishers together with Julia.