Adam Zdara

Building coherent
visual worlds

14 years of brand and design work — from digital products to print and packaging

  • Art director & brand designer
  • Formerly Trezor · 5 years
  • Czech Republic
  • Working globally
  • Available from September 2026

Since 2012 I've worked freelance, in agencies and inside tech companies — designing identities and helping businesses connect with their audience through design.

The last five years I spent at Trezor, one of the most respected companies in crypto security. I led the visual identity through a rebrand, a facelift and three product generations — art direction, product launches, packaging, and the systems that keep a brand consistent while a company grows around it.

That time taught me how design works at scale: across teams, under scrutiny, with an identity people touch every day. It also confirmed a filter I've kept since long before: I want to work on things that bring positive impact, empowering individuals.

Selected
work

Set of the most impactful work from recent years

Trezor rebrand — brand facelift preview

Making Trezor crypto security feel human

Trezor's visual identity, rebuilt and validated element by element through atomic A/B testing. The winning system lifted ad performance by double digits.

Brand & design intelligence — AI-native design system preview

Building brand and design intelligence

An AI-native brand intelligence platform: a documented design system wired to generative tooling, producing on-brand features, assets and campaigns on demand.

Vexl — bitcoin marketplace identity preview

Identity for a discreet Bitcoin marketplace

Brand identity for the go-to app for P2P Bitcoin trading, with over 9,000 local users and expanding globally — recognised among supporters of the original Bitcoin philosophy.

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Creative fragments of commercial or personal projects that I have collected along the way

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Focus

Where I'm headed, what I've learned and Notes on how I approach the work

I think of a brand as a small world with its own rules. When the rules hold, everything inside feels like it belongs — and people sense it immediately, even if they can't name it. My job is to design those rules: clear enough that anyone can work with them, alive enough to leave something behind in everyone who visits.

A black-and-white portrait of Adam Zdara.

Abilities

Brand identity
Art direction
Webdesign
Print & packaging
Motion design
AI assisted development

Experiences

I started out in 2012 with freelance work, and at the Follow Bubble agency I got my first taste of bigger brands — social media, campaigns and web design for clients like Philips, Skoda Auto and T-Mobile and more. In 2017 I co-founded Madesense Digital, a small studio helping entrepreneurs innovate by design. Running it taught me that design is only half the job — the other half is process, communication and trust.

In 2021, after a year at Packeta Group, I joined SatoshiLabs — first brand workshops and identities for Vexl and Tropic Square and Trezor full-time, as art director from 2023. Those five years taught me more than the nine before them. I moved from drawing identities to designing the systems behind them — how a brand behaves across products, packaging, campaigns, code and how people should work with it.

I learned to give feedback with reasons, defend decisions with evidence, and protect an identity that people touch every day. And I went deep into two unexpected crafts: print production for a physical products, and AI-assisted workflows as daily practice.

In 2026, I opened my own practice again — and brought all of it with me.

Creativity & inspiration

Creativity, in my practice, means exploration — searching through variations until the right order shows itself, naturally following defined brand foundation. So I feed my creativity with things that run on the same principle.

Natural structures: simple rules producing endless variation. Music: I spent years producing house and techno, and building a track requires similar thinking as building a brand — loops, layers, and knowing what to leave out. Psychology: symbols and archetypes, why certain shapes and stories resonate across cultures — a quiet layer under all brand work. Staying relevant to today's aesthetic when it fits. Inspiration is everywhere.

Testimonials

Kind words from people I've worked with on great projects

Adam is a systems thinker with an art director's eye. He takes a strategic idea and turns it into something designers actually use every day. Direct, reliable, quick to pick up new tools and ways of working.

Daniel Valcik Head of Design, Trezor

Adam led Trezor's visual identity for five years — a rebrand, a facelift and three product generations. Our ambition was crypto security for everyone, not just experts, and Adam translated that into how Trezor looks and feels. He did it well — the brand came out of those years stronger and more consistent than it went in.

Matej Zak CEO, Trezor

Adam gave Vexl an identity that matches what the app stands for — discreet, peer-to-peer, true to the original Bitcoin ethos. Years later it still works, and people in the community recognise it instantly.

Lea Petrasova CEO, Vexl

Adam gave our marketing design team clear art direction without micromanaging. Feedback always came with a reason — why something works or not, how it fits the system. It made the identity something we could work with every day.

Anusha Schindler Head of Marketing, Trezor