Art Direction for 21st Europe's Starline Blueprint
Starline imagines a unified high-speed rail experience across Europe.
Bakken & Bæck partnered with 21st Europe on Starline, the organisation’s first blueprint for a more connected Europe. The proposal imagines blue high-speed trains linking national rail networks through a unified travel experience. Working with Culte Commun on CG assets, the studio concentrated on the train’s exterior and interior, with stations and landscapes providing context. It also designed the logo, map and ticketing graphics to express a seamless digital experience. Starline forms part of 21st Europe’s approach of starting with tangible visions and then exploring how they could become real. The launch included a talk at Elisava on graphic design and European railways, alongside an event at the studio’s Barcelona office.
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- The blueprint makes a proposed European rail network tangible through train, station and landscape visualisations.
- The design combines physical train environments with logo, map and ticketing graphics.
- The studio narrowed an initial set of eight scenes to focus on the train’s exterior and interior.
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