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CG Tattoo Preview

Ever want to see what a tattoo would look like on your body before permanently inking yourself? Computer graphics artist Loïc Zimmerman developed a program that does just that. By scanning your …

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Bar Code Tattoos

Today Needled traces barcode tattoos back to their heyday in the 90's when they were common protests of consumer culture. In this time of more restraint (and more consumerism?), the concept is …

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Reset Design Tattoo

Needled today directs us to the Parisian site Reset Design's project that tasked designers with reinventing tattoos. The 40 different results range from more lyrical ideas, like a rendering of hair (pictured) …

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Needled: Docteur Gecko

Needled reports today on Docteur Gecko who modifies bus shelter ads using light sensitive colors that only show up at night. Like this riff on Desperate Housewives, the results are generally dark …

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Needled: Skin Is a Language

Needled visits the Whitney's exhibit that takes skin—metaphorically, literally, and otherwise—as its curatorial premise. Skin Is a Language includes works by some heavy-hitters from the Whitney’s permanent collection such as Catherine Opie, …

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Needled: Tattoo Shoe

Needled recently found J. Shoes' leather slip-on with designs by tattoo artists that are hand-etched into the shoes and then burnished with oils and tattoo inks. Driving moccasins for the rockstar set?

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Needled: Furniture Tattoos

Although rearranging the furniture becomes out of the question, getting tattoos of coveted objects is one way for the design-obsessed to pay homage. Today Needled looks at the photo-realist work of Connecticut …

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Needled: SkinBag

Skin-deep fashion gets literal with these synthetic skin accessories made by French artist Olivier Goulet. Marisa wrote about them today on Needled, pointing out that the totes, purses, laptop sleeves, belts, and …