Norway's new passport design is sleek, minimalist, and beautiful

Norway's new passport design might just be cool enough to distract people from your inevitably terrible passport photo. Norwegian officials put a call out for designs, Mashable reports, and Neue Design Studio delivered:

(Photo courtesy of Neue)

At first glance, the daytime landscape of mountains and water is nice, but unremarkable:

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(Photo courtesy of Neue)

Take the passport under ultraviolet light, and the serene vista transforms into a nighttime view:

(Photo courtesy of Neue)

Norway's new passport isn't the first time the country has used clean lines and minimalist designs to wow the world: Last month, the country conducted a similar call for proposals to redesign its currency — and they settled on an an equally pretty pixellated bill design.