Oliver Linke (1971) studied communication design and history of art in Augsburg and Kansas City and works today as a designer, consultant, lecturer and author. In addition to his own design office, he is also co-founder of the »Lazydogs« font label, where his »Finn« typeface was released. Linke also teaches fonts, typography and type design at the Munich Design School and various other universities. He is author of the monograph »Zierlich Schreiben« (Write Gracefully) published in 2007 and writes regularly for the trade magazine PAGE.