Researching for the poster we looked into Hakka history and architecture. As rivalry for resources turned to armed warfare, the Hakka began building communal living structures designed to be easily defensible. These houses, sometimes called tulou, were often round in shape and internally divided into many compartments for food storage, living quarters, ancestral temple, armoury etc. The largest houses covered over 40,000 sqm and it is not unusual to find surviving houses of over 10,000 sqm.

The tulous are either round or square, and were designed as a large fortress and apartment building in one. The eyes are symbols for both looking back in history and towards future.