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.
Features
Long-form tattoo journalism from Good Damage. In-depth stories on artists, studios, expos and the culture behind the craft.
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.
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.