Forty years ago, Don Ed Hardy blew off a Yale fine-art fellowship to pursue the rogue art of tattoo, a timeless and often taboo tradition that captivated him as a boy in the Orange County beach ...

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 ...

The Corona del Mar-born artist returned to Southern California on Wednesday for a screening at Laguna Art Museum of “Ed Hardy Tattoo the World,” a film by longtime friend Emiko Omori.

Don Ed Hardy. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Hardy's education was highly unusual for a tattooer of his era. In the early '60s, he enrolled at the San Francisco Art ...