Features
BUILT WITH TATTOO ARTISTS. ROOTED IN JAPAN.
Tachibana Co. started because Takumi Furukawa couldn't find a birthday present for his dad. Eight years later it's something else entirely.
Tyson Beable — Founder
Founder of GOOD DAMAGE. Photographer, videographer & media strategist. A decade across music media & digital. Married to a tattooist. Started this because tattoo culture deserved better.
Features
This Tattoo Machine Used to Be a Disposable Vape
Philip Island tattooist Connor Cardus spent years wiring buildings. Now he's pulling apart disposable vapes and turning them into tattoo machines. It started because he couldn't bring himself to bin a battery.
Industry
The Quiet Death of Tattoo Magazines
Nobody announced it. Nobody held a funeral. One day they were just gone.
Features
Made To Suit — No Brief. No Client. Just the Work.
Made to Suit is five years old and getting harder to ignore. The exhibition putting tattoo artists on the wall, not behind the machine.
Expo Coverage
The Closest Tattoo Expo Was a Flight Away — So Cairns Built Its Own
No competitions. No corporate backing. No website. No bullshit. Jake Straat built Far North Queensland's first tattoo expo on word of mouth and sheer will — and the artists are already calling it the best in the country. This is how Rainforest & Reef came together.
Artist Highlight
A Dickade of Dickfish
Paul Tuyen Tran has spent a decade being overshadowed by his own joke. The joke, as it turns out, is one of the most recognisable bodies of work in Australian tattooing.
Culture
'Here to Stay' — MJ Forrest Documents Melbourne's Tattoo Scene on Its Own Terms
Someone had to make it. MJ Forrest decided not to wait.