Fashionably Dress Your Wounds With Leather Bandages





Scott Amron of Amron Experimental has come up with a chic and clever way to fashionably "dress your wound". The New York designer/artist and electrical engineer sells his "Hurt Couture" pressed black leather bandages 3 to a pack for $15. He claim that the leather actually breathes better. Not sure if that's true, but they certainly look better.



He intends to come out with some Louis Vuitton ones, too (shown above) but for legal reasons they are called Luis Vuitton bandages. Get on his mailing list for those here.


Interested in other types of luxury first aid?
• Swarovski studded bandages
• Alyssa Dee Kraus designs sterling silver and 18k gold band-aid jewelry
• Check out the sterling silver bandage rings by Michelle Lopez at Artware Editions.

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.
RIHANNA REVEALS MORE THAN HER CURVES: RIHANNA doesn't just appear on the cover of the new "Rolling Stone" in painted-on shorts, she also revealed her preferences in the bedroom. Not surprisingly, she's a little kinky. (--In a nutshell, she likes to be spanked, tied up, and being submissive.)


Rihanna also discusses CHRIS BROWN. On the recent easing of the restraining order ... "It doesn't mean we're gonna make up, or even talk again. It just means I didn't want to object to the judge."

On rumors she wants some kind of relationship with Chris ... "We don't have to talk again ever in my life. I just didn't want to make it more difficult for him professionally. What he did to me was a personal thing. It had nothing to do with his career."

ROMANCE REPORT: COURTENEY COX was photographed on the Caribbean island of St. Barts Tuesday with  her "Cougar Town" co-star JOSH HOPKINS.


And before the they're-hooking-up rumors could even get started, Courteney's rep was quick to get out ahead them, saying, quote, "Courteney is there with Josh, Coco and some other good friends. Strictly platonic."

Really??? Who goes on a "platonic vacation"??? Do you? Have You?

THE REAL REASON BRAD WON'T MARRY ANGIE???: BRAD PITT usually dodges questions about when ANGELINA is going to make an honest man of him, but at a recent meeting with his "Plan B" entertainment company employees, Brad cracked everyone up when he joked ...

"Look what happened to the careers of [Angie's exes] Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller. They both went in the tank after they split with her. I just can't risk it." Well, some chismosa at the meeting repeated Brad's joke to Angelina, who didn't find it funny AT ALL. A friend of hers said "Angie...accused Brad of calling her poison! Even after 6 years together, she still doesn't get his sense of humor."

COULD BE TRUE COULD BE CRAP: JESSICA SIMPSON found out the hard way no one gets a break at the Eepartment of Motor Vehicles when she asked for special treatment while waiting to renew her license in Hollywood last week.

An eyewitness tells one of the gossip sites, “Jessica…went to the front desk and asked in a low voice if she could have a private room while waiting for her number to be called." But “the no-nonsense female staffer” shot back in a loud enough voice for all to hear, ‘Miss Simpson, we didn't do that for the governor and we certainly aren't doing that for you!"

Jessica went back to her seat and "pouted and scowled as she sat with her arms folded and stared straight ahead, kicking her feet” for the next two hours until her name was called.

QUOTE/UNQUOTE: "There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do, but I am the original." -- PARIS HILTON, when asked about being overshadowed by KIM KARDASHIAN in an interview with the Associated Press.

(--Paris and Kim were BFF's once, but have drifted apart over the years as Kim started to become a bigger name than Paris.)

Speaking of the Kardashians ... *Are* they really lazy and untalented, and just famous for being famous? Not if you ask their mom, Kris. "That's a huge misconception," she tells Redbook.


 "They work 25 hours a day. They might not be singers or dancers, but they certainly know how to produce a television show." And apparently, they also know how to control time.

Click the pic for a closer look at the adorable Mason
BABY NEWS: ELIZABETH BANKS is a new mom. She and her husband welcomed Felix this week via surrogate mom. Banks said they used a surrogate because, quote, "I have a broken belly."

Transforming Modern Architect's Works Into 3D Typefaces




Designer Chris Labrooy, inspired by his design heroes; architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Gehry and designer Ettore Sottsass, has created 3D typography based on their works using computer rendering and illustration.

Tadao Ando 3D Type
Typography design based on the architecture of Tadao Ando. Chris chose his favourite Tadoa buildings as a basis for developing these expressive letter forms. Included are: Chikatsu Asuka historical museum / Water temple / Naoshima contemporary art museum annex:





Zaha Hadid 3D Type
Typography design based on the architecture of Zaha Hadid. With this piece, Chris focused on capturing Zaha's formal language rather than reference specific buildings because he claims to be interested in her drawings and paintings from the eighties.:




Oscar Niemeyer 3D Type
Typography design based on the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. Chris picked his favourite Niemeyer buildings as a basis for developing these expressive letter forms. Included are : Cathedral of Brasília / Niterói Contemporary Art Museum / Ibirapuera Park theatre / Oscar Niemeyer Museum.






Toyo Ito 3d type
Letter forms inspired by Toyo Ito's impressive works. The combination of simple forms with inricate perforations is what excited Chris about Toyo's work. These letters are based on : TOD's omotesando / Tower of winds / Taichung opera house / Mikimoto department store:




Frank Gehry 3d Type
Typography design based on the architecture of Frank Gehry. Chris picked his favourite Gehry buildings as a basis for developing some expressive letter forms. Included are: Guggenheim Bilboa / Aerospace museum / Gehry house / experience music project / dancing house prague:







Although not an architect. Ettore Sottsass' memphis style designs inspired Chris to create a font.

Ettore Sottsass 3d Type
Letter forms inspired by Sottsass's early 80's furniture. This work is Chris' attempt to revisit the past, get inspired, and share with people new and interesting interpretations on familiar historical works:





His Helvetica 3D Type does the opposite of the above works. In this font, Chris has turned a typeface into architecture:




For Bauhaus, Chris took a design style and sensibility and also turned it into a 3d rendering of a building:




Also worth noting is his "Playful Type" made of sex toys:

See more of Chris Labrooy's fabulous work here.

Via Architizer