Marc Newson Returns to Qantas for New Plane Designs

Just over a year after launching their new first class lounges in Sydney and Melbourne, Qantas Airlines has stayed on their Marc Newson kick, as the first look at the designer’s new plans for the airline’s fleet of A380 planes have been unveiled by none other than everyone’s favorite design writer Alice Rawsthorn herself. Re-printing a story she wrote for the International Herald Tribune last week, the NY Times has updated it a bit, including a small handful of images of the planes’ new interiors, which seem to closely follow Newson’s lounge designs, albeit it maybe a little less flashy (these things have to get up in the air and be inexpensive to operate after all).