LAGUNA BEACH – Armed with Maybelline eyeliner and colored pencils, a 10-year-old Don Ed Hardy drew designs on his friends inspired by tattoos of World War II and Korean War veterans he saw at the ...

The first thing you notice walking into Don Ed Hardy's art studio, located in a former fish factory on a nondescript side street in North Beach, is the silence. Having spent nearly half a century with ...

The first and only tattoo shop in Corona del Mar in the mid-1950s operated out of the den of Don Ed Hardy’s home on Goldenrod Avenue. The name sounds familiar, right? Ed Hardy is arguably the first ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 6 years old. When Don Ed Hardy set ...

Not exactly fine art, but a fine start for Hardy, who would go on to put his artwork on every body part imaginable — plus objects that weren’t traditionally a home for Hardy’s art designs, like the ...

Ed Hardy wanted to know if I had any tattoos. "My dad took me to get one when I was 15," I told him, "I got a yellow rose on my ankle, a very 15-year-old girl tattoo to get." Ed Hardy said his first ...

The world of tattooing is one that brings up images of grimy, badass dudes in dark basements smoking cigarettes and listening to metal while getting inked up. It’s not a clean-cut industry by any ...