Tattoo typography

By at 8:34 am Friday, May 18


Here's an interesting photo-book about tattoo typography -- "Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh," by Ina Saltz (09-2006). Found on Tim Cole's blog, and he's with the Adobe InDesign team. "This book makes me wonder if the lack of a series of Body Art templates is a glaring oversight on our part," says Tim. (Thanks, Caspar)

Reader comment: Jessica Reynolds says,

There is also a flickr group (of course) that chronicles "words on skin": Link
Darren says,
Inspired by Dominic Monaghan’s bicep, I created a roundup a while back of textual tattoos: Link.

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