Ralph Burkhardt is managing partner of the award-winning design firm burkhardthauke, based in Germany. He also teaches typography at the Media University in Stuttgart and internationally as a guest lecturer. In 2018 he started his own brand, called hinzkunst a lifetime objects made with love.
Burkhardta s previous books include Famous Last Words, Printdesign, Rotis a a polemic paper and Hotchpotch: Lexicon of (un)Useful Creative Knowledge.