Public Relations
Tiny Zaps set to bring ‘coffee card culture’ to tattooing
Tiny Zaps looks set to disrupt tattooing in a major way in the coming months with a business model that not only puts customers first – but rewards them in a way the industry never has.
The idea – from digital entrepreneur, Sam Kelly and his favourite tattooist, Bandit Studio owner Bruno Levy – will make getting a tattoo easier than ever, at just $100 for a thirty-minute slot, and introduce a coffee card culture of rewards and discounts to an industry yet to even embrace card payments.
Tattooing has ballooned into a multi-billion dollar industry – reportedly worth USD 1.89 billion globally in 2022 and set to almost double to USD 3.93bn by 2030.
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Sans Patrie founder Delphin Musquet set to release first collection
Later this week, Delphin Musquet will release the first items of his Sans Patrie fashion line realising a dream years in the making and unifying his business ventures.
Musquet, the founder and creative director of the Shoreditch, London, tattoo studio of the same name, has hired Farhad Hakim to help design the collection.
Hakim has worked with major brands including Adidas and Reebok, spent time on Saville Row, and was the go-to designer for Lucien Clarke during the period the skateboarder and creative got sponsored and walked the catwalk for Louis Vuitton, and launched his brand, DCV87.
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Michelle Servadio turns art performance into vinyl recording
In what is thought to be a world first, London artist Michele Servadio has turned the agony of going under the needle into music, with the release of his first record, Body of Reverbs (BOR): New Rituals For Contemporary Bodies.
The limited-edition vinyl, to be released on September 7 in Hackney Wick, east London, features two recordings of Servadio’s avant-garde performance where he plays his clients’ like an instrument.
Servadio’s tattoo machine is connected to sound decks and the resulting noise is amplified and live-processed by musicians using effects and synthesisers.
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