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 ...

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 ...

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 ...