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Surreal Subway Murals

Million Dollar Design Transforms Underground Transportation With Graffiti

— June 26, 2010 — Autos
The Dutch duo of Million Dollar Design was given the heavy task of redecorating the interior of a dull and dreary subway train into something wonderful. Well, these innovative illustrators certainly delivered!

Million Dollar Design customized the interior of the subway train with a surreal ocean theme. The subway train was decked out beautifully with artwork depicting beautiful sea creatures and mermaid-like muses submerged in an underwater world.

Implications - There exists countless mundane tasks, motions and routines that occupy different lifestyles on a daily basis. While many of these events cannot be eliminated from people's day-to-day lives, they can be made more exciting and engaging in a variety of ways. Businesses that can transform ordinary experiences to exciting ones will benefit tremendously.
Trend Themes
1. Subway Art - The use of unconventional and eye-catching art murals in subway cabins has the potential to disrupt the transportation industry while providing a more visually pleasing atmosphere for commuters.
2. Customized Transit Design - Offering customized and creative design options for subway train interiors and exteriors has the potential to be a disruptive innovation opportunity for design agencies and transit authorities alike.
3. Immersive Experience - Creating an immersive underwater experience through unique and surreal subway art can be a disruptive innovation opportunity for businesses looking to create engaging experiences for their customers.
Industry Implications
1. Transportation - The transportation industry can benefit from disruptive innovations in subway art and customized transit design in order to offer a more visually appealing and engaging experience for commuters.
2. Design - The design industry can benefit from disruptive innovations in customized transit design, especially with more public transit systems and organizations looking to design and implement unique and visually stunning subway train interiors and exteriors.
3. Tourism - Businesses in the tourism industry can offer unique and immersive experiences to visitors by partnering with transit authorities or design agencies to create visually stunning and unconventional subway art murals as part of a city tour or tourist attraction.
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