Adam Ho

Adam Ho

Design Studio in New York, NY, He/him

Projects

2024

Poster design for Cai Guo-Qiang's "A Manifesto" series by WeTransfer / WePresent.

2024

fal announced their $23m raise recently, and are tacking AI with a generative media platform for developers.

It's quite rare to create a brand for a 3 letter-word company. Some projects take some time to chip away at its core, but the founders at fal really embraced a yearning for expression and the opportunity to create on an infinite canvas.

The core concept of this identity relies on the typographic system. It is three-pronged: the camera, the typewriter, and the processor. The image, the words, and the machine. All crucial primitives of what makes AI... AI.

2024

Paradigm is an investment firm that focuses on research at the frontier.

The refreshed identity ties together rich visual tapestries of impossible shapes, a node system representing a new idea's inkling, and a typeface system rooted in deep research and exploration.

2024

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) was one of my first entry points into the web3 world and yesterday, we unveiled a new refreshed expanded, and unified identity.

The identity features an expanded color and graphical system with analog roots but still undeniably digital. More pathways to navigate the New Internet. ENS names with a fluent tag. A typographic system that reflects the maturity and scale at which the ENS ecosystem is growing.

Although we explored different options for a new logo, we opted to redraw the logo from scratch and keep some of that brand equity ENS has built over the years. It should feel more equally weighted and its rounded corners morph the shapes into flower petals. We also added a new consistent wordmark, as many different versions were used in the past.

2024

Matrix is a storied investment firm that has partnered with the likes of Apple, Fedex, Oculus, and Canva.

The refreshed identity was born out of the idea of a digital sea — a mysterious plane. Something technical with an organic undertone.

2024

Brand identity, logo design, and interaction design for Eigen Labs

The brand carries on the spirit of the EigenLayer block language, and should feel like the engine that runs in the background (and a little bit different from the core EigenLayer brand).

2024

Visual identity, logo and interaction design for Common. Product animations by Casey Labatt Simon.

2024

Logo and brand identity for a gaming-centric company featuring generative graphical elements called "shards" that have infinite possibilities, an electric blue that permeates throughout the brand, a flexible yet technical grid system, a typographic stack that bridges the fashion and gaming world, and a cursor element that harkens to FPS games.

2023

This portfolio site has over 38 trillion combinations of layout assortments upon refreshing (chatGPT math might fail me though, sorry). The website is a "generative" and modular" concept showcase.

This website is intended for the audience to feel nothing and everything at once. A coffee table book you open and put down for 4 seconds and move on with your day. If you dig into it, you will learn more about my thesis and how I approach work personally, and for my clients.

No case studies — more of an overall "gut instinct" showcase of my work and inclinations.

2023

In March 2023, I ran a free mint from my art project, "Liquidities". The piece entitled "Glimmer" was live for 24 hours, and was minted over 3000 times.

2023

Brand identity, logo design, and graphical system / brand guide for EigenLayer.

2023

Visual brand refresh for MoonPay.

2023

Logo and branding for Artifact, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's new venture.

2023

Brand identity, logo, guidelines, and website design for Mona, the medium of the metaverse.

2022

“Liquidities” is a series of abstract motion expressions, created by Adam Ho. Each piece uses a limited color palette—up to 24 colors. The pieces are finished in a fully lossy method to replicate the effect of "digital printing."

2022

Brand identity, logo design, illustration system, and website design for Axelar.

2022

Vector x Nouns NY campaign with 8 prominent artists and illustrators putting their own spin on Nouns. I participated as one of the artists!

Work Experience

2019 — Now
New York

I run an independent design practice, and have done work for clients such as Airbnb, Artifact, Bitly, Coinbase, Dropbox, Medium, MoonPay, Square, Webflow, NPR, Felt, and Designer Fund.

2021 — 2022
New York

A little bit of everything on the brand design team at Cash App.

2019 — 2019
San Francisco

Brand identity design on Airbnb Luxe.

2019 — 2019
Brooklyn

Design on Google store.

2017 — 2019
San Francisco

Brand and interaction designer for global leading customer service software company.

Features

2024

IN CONVERSATION WITH is a series from Archetype where we interview artists in/at the edges of crypto across music, visual art, design, curation, and more.

I talk about my work specifically in the context of crypto and emerging technologies.

2023

I share a bit of work and process here, both personal, commercial, and how they intertwine.