Adam Zdara

Designing clarity
into brands

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 reinforced what I value in the work: a clear purpose, a positive contribution, and the feeling that what I'm helping build is genuinely useful.

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.

Fragments

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

Packeta (Zásilkovna) — Website for global expansion

Packeta (Zásilkovna)

Website for global expansion

Packeta (Zásilkovna) — Web app for B2B segment

Packeta (Zásilkovna)

Web app for B2B segment

Packeta (Zásilkovna) — Brand identity guidelines and facelift

Packeta (Zásilkovna)

Brand identity guidelines and facelift

Aniels — Branding for local porcelain crafts and products

Aniels

Branding for local porcelain crafts and products

World of Franz Kafka — Branding for museum of famous Czech author

World of Franz Kafka

Branding for museum of famous Czech author

Trezor Safe 7 — Product graphic pattern exploration

Trezor Safe 7

Product graphic pattern exploration

Trezor Safe 7 — Product graphic pattern exploration

Trezor Safe 7

Product graphic pattern exploration

Trade & Tonic — Visual exploration of the brand

Trade & Tonic

Visual exploration of the brand

Trade & Tonic — Visual exploration of the brand

Trade & Tonic

Visual exploration of the brand

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 and principles. When those 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 to guide the work, flexible enough to grow, and distinct enough to be remembered.

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. After a couple of years at Follow Bubble, I got my first taste of bigger brands — social media, campaigns and web design for clients like Philips, Škoda Auto and T-Mobile.

In 2017, I co-founded Madesense Digital, a small studio helping entrepreneurs innovate through digital products and brands. Running it taught me that design is only half the job — the other half is process, communication and trust.

In 2020, I joined Packeta Group, a company specialising in logistics innovation. Working alongside an experienced design team, I helped evolve the company's visual identity, its touchpoints and digital products.

A year later, I joined SatoshiLabs, a bitcoin-first tech holding built around the mission of empowering individual independence. Through companies like Trezor, Tropic Square and Vexl, I helped shape visual identities across different products and audiences. At Trezor, I later moved from drawing identities to designing the systems behind them — how an identity behaves across products, packaging, campaigns and code, and how people work with it. I learned to give feedback with reason, defend decisions and protect an identity people interact with every day. Along the way, I went deep into two unexpected crafts: print production for hardware and AI-assisted workflows, which became part of my everyday 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