Ed Hardy

Ed Hardy is a Southern California native, who's childhood ambition was to be a tattoo artist.    He became a tattoo apprentice while undergoing his B.F.A degree in Printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1967. After that Ed Hardy moved to Japan as a understudy  of a traditional tattoo master into the 1980s.

 In 2004 Christian Audigier licensed the right of Ed Hardy Clothing line which was based on his art work.