Frederick Burbach is a brand developer, designer, and educator with more than two decades' experience producing strategic brand development and design systems for major corporations in both the United States and Europe.

While living in Zurich, Switzerland, he worked on branding projects for Deutsche Telekom, BMW, Swisscom, Swiss Bank Corporation, SIG (Swiss Industrial Group), EinChem, Balzers High-Vacuum Technology, Contraves, TAG Semiconductors, and The Principality of Liechtenstein. In the United States he has worked on branding projects for Diebold, PepsiAmericas, Steelcase, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, McCormick Center Hotel, and The Premier Bank Group.

Presently Frederick is an assistant professor of art at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He maintains his position as principal of Frederick Burbach Associates, serving clients in strategic brand and design development.

In addition to a BFA in design from Indiana University in Bloomington, he has a graduate degree from The Basel School for Design in Basel, Switzerland. In 2000 he completed his marketing studies at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Frederick has lectured at Indiana University; Herman Miller; ICOGRADA's Conference on Education in London; the School for Applied Art in Vienna, Austria; the Australian Graphic Design Association in Sydney, and the AIGA in Denver. He has taught at Art Center College of Design (Europe), Kansas City Art Institute the Community College of Denver, and Western Michigan University.

His work has appeared in numerous publications including Print, CA, Graphis, Swiss Business, Hoch Parterre, Cash, and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Tages Anzeiger newspapers.

Frederick may be contacted at the Ontario College of Art & Design, 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T, 1W1.