Adam Zdara

Designing clarity
into brands

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

  • Brand designer & art director
  • Formerly Trezor · 5 years
  • Czech Republic
  • Working globally · remote
  • 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

A brand crypto natives already trusted, learning to speak to everyone else. I translated the strategy into a warmer, more human identity — then we proved the direction element by element, in performance tests.

Vexl — Bitcoin marketplace identity preview

Identity for a discreet Bitcoin marketplace

An app where people trade Bitcoin peer to peer, no middlemen — the identity had to feel trustworthy and low-key at once. Years later, it still serves the community unchanged.

Brand & design intelligence — AI-native design system preview

Building brand and design intelligence

A brand made machine-readable: a custom documentation platform, built hands-on with AI in six months — with an intelligence layer designed to generate on-brand work from the documented system.

Tropic Square — chip design producer identity preview

Identity for a secure chip design producer

Refreshed brand and visual identity for Tropic Square, supporting a €4M investment and positioning the company as a market innovator.

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 the famous Czech author

World of Franz Kafka

Branding for museum of the 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
Web design
Print & packaging
Motion design
AI-assisted development

Experiences

I started out in 2012 with freelance work. Then, after a couple of years at Follow Bubble, I got my first experience working with major brands — social media, campaigns and web design for clients like Philips, Skoda 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 its visual expression 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 reasons and protect an identity people interact with every day. Along the way, I went deep into two unexpected crafts: print production for packaging of hardware products 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.

Testimonials

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

Adam is a rare mix of art direction and systems thinking. He helped set brand direction across the company in a way that designers could actually follow day to day. Fast iterations, consistently high quality, and ideas that always held together. Direct, dependable, and someone I could trust on anything we took on.

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. The Safe 7 launch he art directed became the most successful launch in our history — the press called it crypto's Apple moment — and it brought hundreds of thousands of new users to Trezor.

Matej Zak CEO, Trezor

We needed to look like the company we were becoming in the secure chip industry, and Adam's design work got us there before we were. It gave us an identity we were confident putting in front of investors and partners during our €4M raise, no explaining, no second-guessing.

Evzen Englberth Co-founder, Tropic Square