16 New Luxurious Motorcycle Helmets Inspired By Various Travels From Ruby Atelier.

above: The Tuileries helmet with real gold-plated chrome trim

After months of silent preparation Ruby Atelier introduces their seventh helmet collection.

Jérome Coste imagined this new collection evoking four travel journeys, extending the color range and original graphic vocabulary for the brand.

The new helmets feature deep rich lacquered colors with black rubber trim inspired by the Tropics:

detail of Folie Mericourt

detail of Paradis:


Pastels evocative of Palm Springs in the fifties, with chrome trim or gold-plated (3 microns) chrome trim:

detail of Tuileries:

detail of François 1er:


Colors and designs inspired by NASA and Space Astral travel (with an "Apollo" paint job of stripes and black leather detailing, some with a carbon fiber finish and mirror varnish):

detail of Vega:


And lastly, Hot Rod-inspired styles (very Speed Racer!) with graphics like a painted trident and pinstripes reminiscent of Vintage Los Angeles hot rods:

detail of El Mirage:

Detail of Rosamond:


The new livery of 16 ruby helmets launches the 10th of July at all of their official dealers.

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5 Artists Design Helmets For Pirates Design

Thanks to Dalzin.com via freshbump, I discovered this new wonderful line of artist designed helmets named Pirates Design. Olivier Maucorps, a motorcycle enthusiast, decided to start a new line of creative helmets with illustrator FAKIR, who designed one of the helmets as well as the company's logo. They then enlisted four other artists to design the following helmets:

FAKIR
Graphic artist, toy designer and illustrator FAKIR designed the logo as well the FAKIR Helmet:



NANAN
French sculptor and toy designer Gaël Brienne (aka NANAN1) designed the following helmet:



GRAPHEART
French graphic design, illustration and toy design studio Grapheart, designed the following helmet:




KATRE
French Graffiti and street artist Katre, designed the following helmet:



LADY SHOVE
Freelance graphic designer Lady Shove (aka Julie Chauville)



The helmets are being exhibited at Star Motors in Paris from March 25- April 30th and can actually be purchased online.



Shop for the Pirates Design helmets here.

More Luxury Bike Helmets From Ruby Atelier, Now With Matching Scarves.

Clockwise from upper left; Karl Lagerfeld scarf, Sponge Bob Scarf, Eley Kishimoto scarf and Honet scarf.

I've written about the stunning designs of Les Atelier Ruby motorcycle helmets before, but now these few and new special editions have a fashionable accessory as well. The special edition luxury motorcycle helmets for Ruby Atelier by Karl Lagerfeld, Eley Kishimoto, Honet and Sponge Bob also have matching silk twill scarves you can purchase.

The Pavillon Tweed Helmet by Karl Lagerfeld of CHANEL is limited to 100 editions and costs $1800.00. The matching Karl Lagerfeld silk twill scarf will run you $210.00:



The Sponge Bob helmet is one of the most fun ways you can protect your brain matter. Limited to 200 copies of the cartoon character helmet, the price on this one is $1200.00. Matching Sponge Bob silk twill scarf is $180.00:



Belvedere helmet by Eley Kishomoto (Wakako Kishimoto and Mark Eley) sells for $1350.00 and the Eley Kishimoto silk twill scarf can be yours for $180.00:



And lastly, their special edition helmet by Graffiti artist Honet also has a matching Honet silk twill scarf ($180.00):



Purchase the Ruby Ateleier scarves, special edition helmets or design your own here.

Clever Helmet Experiment By GOOD! Photoshopped Brain Buckets.

This fun experiment with helmet designs is really more of a photoshop feat. The Kazakhstan-based creative marketing and PR firm GOOD! wanted to try the synthesis of two different objects around one form.

Some are clever visual puns, others just play with texture and objects. Either way, they are a fun little project to peruse. Enjoy!
















all images and info courtesy of GOOD!