“Do you hear that? Times are changing…” The first poster on the left (top on mobile) was created for the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. The idea behind the poster is a set of keys—one of which is comprised of the letters ‘OF’, which stood for Občanské fórum—or Civic Forum. The Civic Forum played a pivotal role in transforming the country from a communist regime to a democracy. The set of keys was a popular symbol during the revolution, as peaceful protesters would often wave them in the air to “ring in the new regime”.
The poster on the right (bottom on mobile) commemorates the centennial of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 2018. The poster works with the Czech proverb “střepy přinášejí štěstí” which loosely translates to “shards bring happiness” in reference to when a piece of tableware is accidentally broken. This poster, however, poses this proverb as a hypothetical question, where the shards of the broken plate are shaped as territories of the original Czechoslovak map in 1918. Two territories since 1918 had seceded, the first being Carpathian Ruthenia in 1938, and then Slovakia in 1993.