A visual exploration of alternative, underground landscapes in Hungary and Eastern Europe.

The project examines the decaying, imperfect, and damaged elements that shape these cities, offering a unique perspective on their visual environments.

By reflecting on the interplay between planned aesthetics and environmental decay, he raises the question: Can the remnants of torn posters on crumbling walls be considered graphic art?

↗Created for an open call by FIG. Sofia

Eight Metaliic Pieces is a series of A/4 metal sheets created with the intention to replicate and observe the graphical effects that come from decaying environments.

The context of the pieces is situated as part of a broader research, aimed at the graphical exploration of public transport environments.

The pieces were exhibitied as part of the exhibition MOVE!: Distant Memories in November, 2023

↗https://thegreyspace.net/program/move-25-11-2022/

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.

↗https://rmts.nl/

Poetry is an elusive yet fascinating concept. The playful, yet telling notion of poems, has been present in all cultures in one form or another.

Due to its enormous background, we often think of poetry as a form rather than as a concept. Let it be epigrams, ballads, haikus, or concrete poems, what they all have in common is that they are all placed within the same context of written and spoken language.

Is this written and spoken language however the only context in which poetry can function? If we go on the path of seeing poetry as a way of structuring words, then how can the same playfulness and freedom be achieved by the structuring of visuals? It is this question of structural flexibility in imagery that inspired the creation of the State of Poetry institute, which is aimed at collecting and archiving objects of interest, then offering them in experimental sets of non–linear poems. All of our editions include two booklets, one of which is a “manual”, while the other is a “poetry book” constructed from our collections.

The first volume of STOP emphasizes the contrast between the ornamental selfishness of graffiti and the functionality of the systems in which they are placed. Told by a collection of elements that range from maps of metros through objects that play with the material of public transport to copied drawings of graffiti.

For general information, go to STOP_1

The second volume of STOP delves into the visual narratives of romance and revolution, culminating in a publication influenced by a collection of different manifestations of love and the erotic, infused by the ideas of sexual liberation and feminism imposed by the 1968 protest movements of France.

The edition was created as part of my studies in the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, meaning that the edition also was part of a collective exhibition in the late spring months of 2023.

Visual and material research in relation to my thesis about the Budapest Metro system.

The goal was to observe the personal notions behind the interior sonic, enviromental, and visual design behind the old line three of the Budapest metro system prior to it's renovation.

The process included several takes on the depiction of this environment, ranging from visual designs, informed by maps, signange and wayfinding to real-life footage from both me and unrelated individuals.

↗Budapest Metropolitan

“Shapes That Don’t Let Me Sleep at Night” is an installation, speculating the possible visual abstractions and alternate realities of club spaces.