Don Ed Hardy
1945 – Present

This is Don Ed Hardy's
Life

Born Donald Edward Talbott Hardy. Turned down Yale to become a tattoo artist. Changed American tattooing from sailors' marks to fine art. "Wear Your Dreams" - that's what I told people for forty years.

4,231
Weeks Lived
24
Milestones
13
Memories

Life in Weeks

90 years · 4,680 weeks

28 documented moments
Corona del Mar Kid
Art School Rebel
Apprentice Years
Japan
Realistic Tattoo
Empire and Exile
Retirement
Birth
Teens
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s

Inspired by this life story?

Start Your Historia