Juggling roles with finesse, Lars Harmsen serves as the head of design at the Munich-based agency Melville Brand Design, while also steering the ship at Slanted Publishers. In 2004, he started Slanted, which soon evolved into SLANTED PUBLISHER, one of the most influential German publishers in the field of typography and design on an international level. He’s been dishing out typographic wisdom since 2011 at Dortmund University and even took his show to the American University of Sharjah. Ever the multitasker, he runs the 100for10 book series and pilots POSTERREX’s silkscreen extravaganzas. He’s practically an artistic library with a mountain of design, typography, and photography books under his belt. And as the clock keeps ticking, he’s left wondering: What’s the grand purpose of this circus, anyway?