Artists

Don’t let the digital world intimidate you. Direct mail marketing continues to be an effective marketing tool especially for local businesses like a tattoo shop. The tattoo industry generates approximately 50 billion dollars a year and…

In the tattoo industry Filip Leu is a name that speaks for itself, and if you don’t know who he is, I suggest you go back to and do your homework. Filip is a historical…

Tel Aviv artist Joe Ankave has been tattooing for 7 years. His style is best described as Neo-traditional Japanese. “My passion is only about tattooing! Even if I do something else besides tattooing, the motivation…

We’ve admired the art of Caleb Neff for several years – most of it in the form of beautiful tattoos on his Rockstar brother Ryan Neff, bassist for the Metalcore stalwarts Miss May I from…

Tucked away in “Middle Earth”, otherwise known as Mansfield, Ohio, is the historic and infamous film location for the movie ‘Shawshank Redemption’ (and recently several ghost hunting shows).  On July 13th (Friday the 13th!), 14th,…

Melvin Tay is a tattoo artist from Singapore who specializes in Chinese Oriental abstract, he’s also a dear friend of mine. I met Melvin for the first time in 2011 during a convention in Belgium and…

If you’re a fan of Paramount Network’s hit show Ink Master, then no doubt you know who Robbie Ripoll and Jayvo Scott are! The brothers appeared on the show’s Rivals Edition to battle out their…

Industry leaders in premium adult entertainment, BRAZZERS, have teamed up with Joey Hamilton, owner of Revolt Tattoos studio in Las Vegas and reality TV competition-winning tattoo artist, for the most recent episode in the successful TRENDZZ series ‘Porn…

Compared to the rest of Europe and the US, in Italy tattoo culture spread itself fairly late. Gian Maurizio Fercioni is certainly one of the main advocates of this spread and certainly the most charismatic…

Markus Lenhard, also known as Lux Altera, is a tattoo artist who works in Berlin. In the tattoo industry, Markus has gained a leading role in the challenging field of biomechs. In this niche genre,…