Balázs Milánik

Royal Metro Transit Services is a fictional metro network that explores the role of the graphic designer through two opposing narratives. Using the allegory and visual language of public transport systems and developing his research around real-life metro networks, Balázs Milánik invites the viewer on a journey that contradicts the idealistic design of the system with its flawed reality.

The project aims to maintain the structure of a real transit network through design as an agent of idealism and illusion. The four stations spread around KABK, modeled after real-life frictions inside metros, culminate in a completely dysfunctional environment, creating a platform to highlight the differences between the promises and realities of design. 

By reflecting on the sharp break between illusion and reality, design and improvisation, and promise and delivery, Milánik aims to highlight the figure of the graphic designer as the one who creates and navigates these dualities.