Poster Scandal - Youth Day

In 1987 New Collectivism took part in the competition for the poster and the torch to comemorate the 25th of May (The Day of Yugoslav Youth) and the birthday of Josip Broz Tito.

The jury selected NK's proposal as the best and it got the first prize.

The NK work was a re-design of a poster by the German designer Richard Klein from the 1930's. On their poster Nazi symbols were replaced with Socialist Symbols. After the decision of the jury the poster was reproduced in Politika, the main Yugoslav daily newspaper. A Belgrade engineer named Grujic informed the press where the image was taken from. The big scandal which resulted appeared in all Yugoslav media and when the jury was asked why they choose it they said they liked it but didn't know where the image was taken from.

After a long investigation, a general prosecutor in Slovenia decided that there was not enough proof to send NK members to court. The case was dismissed; only a year later the traditional Socialist ritual surrounding Tito's birthday was abolished.