studied ceramics at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague because he felt ceramics would give him the freedom to combine sculpture, graphics and painting. “I always thought that it’s nonsense to divide, for people to be artists and applied artists and fine artists,” he says. After graduating, Velcovsky became involved with Qubus, a small design production company established by designer Jakub Berdych. Velcovsky's work fuses the Czech Republic's rich design heritage – such as the glass and porcelain it's famous for – with its enthusiastic take-up of a modern consumer economy since the 1989 Velvet Revolution. He’s best known for his porcelain pieces, such as Digi Clock, a traditionally florid white clock case with a digital readout rudely stuck on the front. In another work, Waterproof, a pair of vases in the shape of wellington boots, the wellington concept is twisted to hold rather than keep out water. His work tends to have a wry and faintly obstinate air to it, using familiar forms and giving them contradictory new functions or identities.

is a series of glasses made of pyrex glasses in the shape of fast food vendor cups. Handblown in the Czech Republic. Dimensions: φ 65 mm x H 85 mm.