Determined to be a tattoo artist at the age of ten and tattooing professionally since 1967, California native Don Ed Hardy has become one of the world's leading tattoo artists. Inspired by traditional Japanese work, he was instrumental in developing the medium's fine art potential and fueling the late-century international tattoo boom. Tattooing the Invisible Man presents a survey of Hardy's paintings, etchings, lithographs, drawings, photographs, and elaborate tattoos, over 500 color illustrations, most never before published.

Tattooing the Invisible Man: Bodies of Work

Arts & Photography

Don Ed Hardy

Hardy, Don Ed

Photography & Video

Hardy Marks Pubns

This book contains nearly 300 traditional American designs and Ed Hardy originals. 33 sheets of flash are in full color with origins of design printed on the back of each sheet. Pages can be removed and displayed.

Tattoo Flash

Other Media

This book reproduces Don Ed Hardyâ€™s painting, 2000 Dragons, a work that evokes the tradition of classic Chinese and Japanese narrative scroll painting. The painting was created to mark the Millennium, a Dragon year in the Asian zodiac. Hardy painted the piece in five-foot sections continuously until completed; only five feet of the working surface was visible at a time, and it was painted spontaneously, with no preparatory drawing. The original work, in acrylic and colored pencil, measures 51 inches by 500 feet.

2000 Dragons

Individual Artists

Hardy Marks Publications

New for 2017, Volume 2 of Don Ed Hardyâ€™s Drawings for Tattoos! This book presents a lavish array of Hardyâ€™s drawings for custom tattoo commissionsâ€“ideas that were never tattooed, works from early childhood, and works from his art school days. All are placed in the context of an essay about how the impulse to draw is at the core of tattooing as a medium.

Drawings For Tattoos Volume 2

Humor & Entertainment

Pop Culture

Hardy Marks Publications is proud to announce the third volume in its Drawings for Tattoos series, featuring more of the work of San Francisco’s Don Ed Hardy. The focus of this volume is drawings done between 1955 and 1957, when Hardy (at age 10-12) was applying “tattoos” with eyeliner and colored pencils on neighborhood kids. He and his partner in the “toy tattoo shop” were featured in a photo article in his local paper, which is included in this book along with pictures his work. Hardy produced hundreds of flash design sheets during this period, before going onto art in other mediums for ten years. He returned to actual tattooing in 1967 after graduating art school, and went on to develop the cultural and artistic potential of the medium, leading the world to its current popularity. This volume of his Kiddy Flash shows the precocious roots of his life-long passion.

Drawings For Tattoos Volume 3

Brooklyn Joe Lieber (1888-1953) was a mentor for Sailor Jerry Collins. Though born in Brooklyn, Lieber moved to the S.F. Bay area and spent most of his career there. Sharing a powerful near-identical drawing and painting style, he and Collins originated and traded hundreds of designs. This book features Lieber’s brilliant and influential flash and drawings, equal in scope to those of Sailor Jerry.

Brooklyn Joe Lieber: American Tattoo Master

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of our premier publishing effort, New Tribalism, the book that detonated the explosive growth of tattooing in the late twentieth century, Hardy Marks Publications is excited to announce the re-release of all five issues of our historic Tattootime magazine in one boxed set. Â Now all five Tattootimes â€” New Tribalism (1982), Tattoo Magic (1983), Music &amp; Sea Tattoos (1984), Life &amp; Death Tattoos (1987), and Art From the Heart (1991) are here in two beautiful hardbound volumes, enclosed in a sturdy slipcase. All contents are from the first edition of each original -- subsequent reprints omitted some material. The combined volumes add up to 352 full color pages, plus original covers, and an added 27-page subject and title index to the entire series. Â Tattootime truly changed the worldâ€”documents, ideas, and images that have become legendary. Now experience its timeless impact.

Ed Hardy's Tattootime

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The original creator of tattoo "flash" was largely unknown. Now a private collection of works by this Jewish tattooer from New York, "Lew the Jew" Alberts, has come to light. Around 1905 he was the first to make these design sheets commercially available, as well as developing the electric tattoo machine. His previously unpublished and rare original tattoo artwork is being published as a tattoo flash collection for the first time. Albert Kurzman (1880-1954) aka Lew the Jew was one of America s most influential tattoo artists at the beginning of the 20th century. Operating primarily on New York s Bowery, Lew constructed some of the earliest electric tattoo machines, and was the first to design and market printed design sheets to other tattooers. His artwork in these flash displays codified the repertoire of American tattooing, and many are still in use today. This first book to document this amazing man presents over 150 drawings. Included in these is correspondence between Al and two of his closest confidants, San Francisco Bay Area tattooers Brooklyn Joe Lieber and C.J. Pop Eddy. These candid fragments provide a vivid sense of a hardboiled, secretive world. Additional business cards, vintage tattoo photographs, and previously unknown biographical data illuminate the then-shadowy business of skin art. This material laid the ground for the avalanche of tattooing that permeates the world today.

"Lew the Jew" Alberts: Early 20th Century Tattoo Drawings

This book presents a lavish array of Hardyâ€™s drawings for custom tattoo commissionsâ€“ideas that were never tattooed, works from early childhood, and works from his art school days. All are placed in the context of an essay about how the impulse to draw is at the core of tattooing as a medium. Many works created for custom commissions include breakthrough pieces from the late 1960s and early 1970s. These were responsible for tattooingâ€™s present-day global explosion. Examples of designsâ€™ evolution through various stages provide a never-before-seen document of Hardyâ€™s process. A majority of the works are reproduced actual size.

Drawings For Tattoos Volume 1

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Tattooing the Invisible Man: Bodies of Work

Tattoo Flash

2000 Dragons

Drawings For Tattoos Volume 2

Drawings For Tattoos Volume 3

Brooklyn Joe Lieber: American Tattoo Master

Tattooing the Invisible Man: Bodies of Work

Ed Hardy's Tattootime

"Lew the Jew" Alberts: Early 20th Century Tattoo Drawings

Drawings For Tattoos Volume 1