About Me (<-)

Hello, my name is Patrik!
I am a designer and a photographer.

Design (<-)

With a background in print
and making, I specialise in designing workflows, fabrication processes, and bringing concepts to life.

Photography (<-)

Within photography,
I specialise in black & white film photography with development and scanning done by yours truly. However, I am no stranger to the digital camera either as seen from my product shots.

SEE IT,
TOUCH IT,
PERCEIVE IT

Explore diverse ways of seeing the world, designed for accessibility and inclusivity, considering visual impairments. The legible typeface is paired with braille inside and on the durable plastic jacket. The 240 pages are hand-bound with open coptic stitching, featuring a minimalistic white cover with a letter-pressed title.

Seeing is a broad concept, both technical and philosophical. This book explores various ways of seeing and perceiving the world around us.

This book was shortlisted in the British Book Design and Production Awards 2023 under the Best Student Book category.

National College
of Art and Design,
Dublin

Visual identity concept for NCAD Zooms In Instagram page – a weekly talk platform curated and hosted in-house by NCAD Communication Design.

To allow each speaker's individual background to shine, we produced a vivid series of visuals symbolising variety.

We aimed to transform the visual identity from a small college-focused platform into a dynamic, industry-wide event, showcasing its potential to evolve into a vibrant hub for collaboration, education, and networking within the industry.

Making the background the main focus, setting the scene of a bold and curious environment.

This work is purely speculative and has been done as part of a third-level educational coursework. Visuals © Patrik Zacek & Mikah Smillie. Music © Massive Attack: Paradise Circus. Images © StudioXAG & Paula Scher.

Jake Barnes

Visual identity for Jake's optimistic and charismatic personality incorporates key aspects of their life, including love for water sports, fashion, and their fine art media profession.

A playful approach to bring the logo alive in the form of a colourful claymation.

National
Print Museum

A letterpress poster underlining a symptom of the anthropocene. The microplastics in the human body. Teamwork with Isabel Duignan.

The process took many conversations; the final one lead us to ambiguity and subtlety of how this 'symptom' appears in our food, our water, our life, we harnessed it and pushed it to closely emphasize the problem.
Learn more about the exhibition

Beginner's
Guide to Glory

A taboo topic – the glory hole. You know you have questions. This book is here to answer them.

Contained inside is a series of images taken for this publication at real glory hole stalls in the city-centre of Dublin.

Patrick Zacek

Designed and printed by hand. Meticulously typeset and positioned on a type machine. Every iteration tested on paper, 0% computers used.

About Me (<-)

Hello, my name is Patrik!I am a designer and a photographer.

Design (<-)

With a background in print and making, I specialise in designing workflows, fabrication processes, and bringing concepts to life.

Photography (<-)

Within photography, I specialise in black & white film photography with development and scanning done by yours truly. However, I am no stranger to the digital camera either as seen from my product shots.

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Patrik Zacek

Hello, my name is Patrik!
I am a designer and a photographer.

With a background in print
and making, I specialise in designing workflows, fabrication processes, and bringing concepts to life.

Within photography,
I specialise in black & white film photography with development and scanning done by yours truly. However, I am no stranger to the digital camera either as seen from my product shots.