Kavárna Jarda Mayer
Corporate identity, design and cultural programme
for café/bar Kavárna Jarda Mayer in Prague
Friends' bar founded by Ondřej Němec and currently run by his successor Daniela Litváková
Logos
Digital redesign (original hand made logo by Jan Tlapák)
and variants for thematic events
Website
Background of the page is filled with a number of hidden buttons linked with our favourite funny internet videos
Stickers
Based on true mobile phone messages from regular visitors
Friendship / Kamaradství
Plastic object turning around its axis by small engine
A story of a figure that falls off a planet of friendship and everyone from it tries to help and get him back on it.
Restroom wall decorations
Plaster handmade heads
Washroom
Shared washbasin from both women’s and men’s side. Cooperation with Tomáš Vorel jr.
365 dní přátelství / 365 days of friendship
2019-2020
A series of 365 photographs following a journey of a figure inside the bar space. The theme of the project is tied to the previously present friendship object. Each day throughout the year from February 6th 2019 to February 7th 2020 a single photo was posted on instagram, completed with an exibition of all 365 images and a human sized figure.
Cooperation with Daniela Litváková
Miniature of Kavárna Jarda Mayer
2016
Miniature model of the café, placed in Café Club Míšeňská (another project of the café founder Ondřej Němec).
Made as a memorial to our early years of taking care of the venue.
All parts are hand-crafted, inculding miniature real paintings by Jarda Mayer.
1:10, approx. 1,5m long, fully electrified by Jiržin Rouš.
Sbírka sbírek / Collection of collections
2018
The exhibition celebrates the phenomenon of amateur collectors of all things possible. The collections were partially borrowed from friends or pur based through online marketplaces. For example gathered here were the collections of toothbrushes, phone cards, pens, empty packages of various melted cheeses, posters of horses and other bizarre items.
Cooperation with Tomáš Vorel jr.
PŘED a PO! / BEFORE and AFTER!
2017
Photography exhibition of interior details in café before great reconstruction and wall painting (after anti-smoking law).
Working with contrast between old dingy and newlytreated walls.
Výstavka / School exhibition
2013
Collective exhibition of childhood drawings from regular visitors and friends
Jarda Mayer v lese / in forest
2013
Autumn decoration in forest and huntsman theme.
Cooperation with Anežka Kalivodová, Ondřej Němec and many other Mayer’s friends
Bar lights
Made from plastic mannequins
Bar
Climbing handles - boulder bar for beginners or for fallen drunks to get back up the bar
