Kit Hinrichs served as principal in several design offices in New York and San Francisco and spent twenty-three years as a partner of Pentagram before opening Studio Hinrichs in 2009. His design experience incorporates a wide range of projects, including brand development, promotion, packaging, environmental graphics, editorial, and exhibition design. He is also a noted American flag collector and founder of the Stars & Stripes Foundation.

His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museums of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Denver Museum of Design and Letterform Archive. In addition to Narrative Design, he is the co-author of five books, including Typewise, Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag and The Pentagram Papers.

Kit co-founded the magazine @issue: The Journal of Business and Design, chaired the AIGA California Show, and co-chaired the AGI San Francisco Congress. He is a recipient of the prestigious AIGA medal and a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. Recently, he was commissioned to design an American Flag exhibit, titled Broad Stripes/Bright Stars at the Nevada Museum of Art and a major new American flag book, with the same title for Andrews McMeel Publishing, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.