AIRBUS A380 REDESIGN

The A380 is the flagship airliner for Airbus, one of the two largest aircraft manufacturers in the world along with Boeing. For our first contract as an independent design consultancy, Airbus tasked Neon Black Design with a whopping challenge: imagine and create the future for the biggest passenger plane in the world, the A380. This project was no small feat. To develop our solution my team and I interviewed a wide variety of passengers, pilots, engineers, and flight crew, and traveled to Europe and Asia to experience and understand the transportation networks that exist throughout the world. We considered all aspects of air travel, greatly expanding the potential touchpoints that a company such as Airbus has to influence their users' emotional state throughout what is often an extremely stressful and unpleasant experience. The result is an ongoing project known as Fly Transpose, a revolutionary look at airplanes as modular spaces designed to serve the needs of the traveling public in ways never envisioned before.