Adam Zdara

Brand design for
trust-critical products

14 years of solving creative challenges in digital products and brands.

Since 2012, I've been designing for increasingly skeptical audiences — the last years for the most skeptical on earth: Bitcoiners, cryptographers, people securing their life's savings.

In front of them, beauty without proof gets dismissed in seconds. So I learned to build both: brands and products with imagination on the surface and evidence underneath. Crypto, security, fintech — places where design isn't decoration. It's the reason to believe.

Selected
work

Set of the most impactful work from recent years

Evidence-based brand facelift for Trezor

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

Trezor Safe 7: global launch of the flagship product

Global launch of Trezor's flagship hardware wallet — the campaign, the system, and the rollout across every surface the product ships on.

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.

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.

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, which have a special place in my heart

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Focus

Creative fragments of commercial or personal projects that I have collected along the way, which have a special place in my heart

General work approach / Philosophy / Work principles — I've spent the last decade designing for the most skeptical audiences on earth. Bitcoiners. Cryptographers. Hardware engineers. People securing their life's savings with a device that fits in a palm. Their founding instinct is don't trust, verify — and in front of them, beauty without proof gets dismissed in seconds.

Skill set

Experiences

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

I've spent the last decade designing for the most skeptical audiences on earth. Bitcoiners. Cryptographers. Hardware engineers. People securing their life's savings with a device that fits in a palm. Their founding instinct is don't trust, verify — and in front of them, beauty without proof gets dismissed in seconds.

I've spent the last decade designing for the most skeptical audiences on earth. Bitcoiners. Cryptographers. Hardware engineers. People securing their life's savings with a device that fits in a palm. Their founding instinct is don't trust, verify — and in front of them, beauty without proof gets dismissed in seconds.

I've spent the last decade designing for the most skeptical audiences on earth. Bitcoiners. Cryptographers. Hardware engineers. People securing their life's savings with a device that fits in a palm. Their founding instinct is don't trust, verify — and in front of them, beauty without proof gets dismissed in seconds.

Creativity & inspiration

I've spent the last decade designing for the most skeptical audiences on earth. Bitcoiners. Cryptographers. Hardware engineers. People securing their life's savings with a device that fits in a palm. Their founding instinct is don't trust, verify — and in front of them, beauty without proof gets dismissed in seconds.

I've spent the last decade designing for the most skeptical audiences on earth. Bitcoiners. Cryptographers. Hardware engineers. People securing their life's savings with a device that fits in a palm. Their founding instinct is don't trust, verify — and in front of them, beauty without proof gets dismissed in seconds.

Testimonials

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

Adam shaped how Trezor looks and feels for five years — through a rebrand, three product generations and a flagship launch. What set him apart was that he never asked us to take design on faith: he brought evidence. I'd trust him with any brand where trust is the product.

Matej Zak CEO, Trezor

Adam shaped how Trezor looks and feels for five years — through a rebrand, three product generations and a flagship launch. What set him apart was that he never asked us to take design on faith: he brought evidence. I'd trust him with any brand where trust is the product.

Daniel Valcik Design lead, Trezor

Adam shaped how Trezor looks and feels for five years — through a rebrand, three product generations and a flagship launch. What set him apart was that he never asked us to take design on faith: he brought evidence. I'd trust him with any brand where trust is the product.

Lea Patrasova CEO, Vexl

Adam shaped how Trezor looks and feels for five years — through a rebrand, three product generations and a flagship launch. What set him apart was that he never asked us to take design on faith: he brought evidence. I'd trust him with any brand where trust is the product.

Evzen Englberth CEO, Tropic Square