Tattoo Art & Design

by Victionary (Editor)

Tattoos are sexy, fashionable, and creative. This compendium features over 480 designs by the world's leading young graphic artists for tattoos that are new, different, and edgy.Little has appeared that explores fresh designs for tattoos by contemporary graphic artists and designers. Tattoo Art & Design corrects this with designs by over 60 of today's up-and-coming designers. They draw inspiration from diverse cultures and media, and bridge the highly graphic world of skin art and the exploding creativity in graphic design communities worldwide. Among the featured designers are Kinpro, Klaus Haapaniemi, Marcus Oakley, Rex Koo, Rinzen, Musa Collective, and Stapelberg & Fritz. The designs featured here shatter the conventional notion of the tattoo. Gone are hearts inscribed with names, anchors, Celtic harps, or tribal bands. Instead, the tattoo designs are based on Japanese animé characters, abstract art, hip-hop culture, and Day-Glo pop art in a palette of vibrant colors and elaborate shapes. These fun and playful designs will inspire a new breed of tattoo artist as well as the next generation of graphic designers.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

432 pages, Paperback

First published April 17, 2007

About the author

viction:ary is the publishing brand of leading publisher viction workshop ltd, founded by Victor Cheung in 2001. Sitting at the heart of Asia, viction:ary books specialise in visual arts and design, and connect visions and inspirations from the West and the East. With focuses on graphic design, illustrations, fashion, architecture, product design and contemporary art projects, our radar observes global designs that essentially present strong, original concepts and graphical approaches. Through creative collaborations and innovations in publishing, we capture
what’s up and who’s next in the creative realm and propose multidimensional angles to rethink and review design.
Persistently pushing the boundaries, viction:ary’s commitment
to quality in editorial direction and book design is widely recognised by the industry and international media. With
heaps of successful publications under our belt, we continue
to give ourselves to elevate visual experiences and inspire readers inside and outside the industry, wherever they dwell in the world.

Reviews

[Alanna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Warning: Read this if you want to see temporary tattoos created by graphic designers. This is a complete waste if you’re looking for actual tattoos that follow the art form.

[Tamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything I've wanted from a tattoo book that until now has never come to fruition.

Most tattoo books have a lot of pics of really random tattoos that are hard to interpret or hard to see, on bodies that you may not have ever wanted to encounter.

This book, however, is young and hip and eliminates having to see biker chicks in their undies.

The designs are pulled from the new wave of tattoo artists from around the world. Inspired by Japanese anime, Day-Glo pop art and hip-hop culture, they have a ton of color and are actually pretty darn cute! Definitely worth a breeze-through. Even if you never plan on going under the needle (like me.)

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thought I'd already reviewed this book. I bought it thinking it would be a great coming together of art design and tattoos. Instead, these are not real tattoos, they are temporary stick-ons. Furthermore, whoever was in charge here doesn't know or care how real tattoo are applied. These stick-on's are done too small and too close together to be done successfully as real tattoos. So those of you out there looking to get a tattoo like you see here, beware! I returned this book immediately!

[Alien X Tattoo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tattoo Art & Design, dövme sanatının kültürel derinliğini ve teknik evrimini anlatan harika bir kaynak. Alien X Tattoo olarak, Samsun’da kişiye özel dövme tasarımları yaparken bu tarz kaynaklar hem ilham verici hem de yaratıcı süreci destekleyici oluyor. Minimalist dövmeden realistik çizimlere kadar geniş bir stil yelpazesine dair fikir sunuyor.

Sanatçıların çizimlerine yaklaşımı, çizgi kalitesi ve desen diliyle ilgili bölümler özellikle dikkatimi çekti. Dövme sanatına yeni başlayanlar ya da profesyonel dövme sanatçıları için oldukça faydalı.

Kendi stüdyomuzda bu bakış açısını uyguluyoruz. Daha fazla bilgi almak ya da işlerimizi görmek isterseniz:
🌐 https://alienxtattoo.com
📸 https://instagram.com/alien.x.tattoo

[Alfredo Gayou · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty misleading since this tattoo “art and design” isn’t made by tattooers. They are just fake tattoos created by graphic designers, designs and some pasted on skin; some are even upside down as normally a tattooer would explain. Some texts are nearly readable from the image overlapping with no contrast. Graphically they aren’t bad but most of the designers don’t have or even like tattoos and almost all have some kind of judgement.
But probably it was hard to find graphic designers who enjoy tattoos who aren’t tattooers.

[kimberly · Rating 2 out of 5]

so, like, none of these were actual tattoos.

very pretty images, almost all vector-based. these were then turned them into temporary tattoos. many of the designers didn't even HAVE tattoos of their own.

WTF.

for someone considering a tattoo, this was exceedingly unhelpful and uninteresting.

[Aljan · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book should be called Body Graffiti or Graphic Design Does the Body, certainly not Tattoo Art and Design. It is full of graphic, advertising, clip art type art and NONE of the tattoos are real. They are ALL wet and stick temporary tattoos.

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of interesting contemporary designs, this book is a page turner. Ironically, an overwhelming majority of those who contributed designs do not have and do not want to have tattoos.

[Scampi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has some awesome pictures. Though they are only fake tattoos, they are pretty cool.

[Nicholas Gourlay · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm surprised that somebody actually spent money in publishing this book because its stupid.

edit : Except for maybe Jorge Alderete (pg 168-169)

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book isn't so much about tattoos as it is a collection of work examples from various designers and illustrators on a theme. Some gems within.

[J]

these all look so gorgeous!