by Stephen Jefferson Photos courtesy of TattooFinder.com
From the November 2005 issue of Prick Magazine.
TattooFinder.com business partners Brad Hutchison and Lou Bardach pose with the Lizardman at the 2005 NIX Convention in Toronto, Canada (3rd business partner Rachael Bardach not pictured).
In today's high-tech world, you can
find just about anything on the
Internet from the comfort of your
home, including tattoo designs. If you're
searching for that perfect tattoo design,
then you should know that
TattooFinder.com currently offers the
largest selection of tattoo designs on the
Internet.
TattooFinder.com offers designs by
some of the top tattoo artists from
around the world, including Edward Lee,
Guy Aitchison, Aaron Bell, Terri Fox,
Cherry Creek and many more. This is the
same top quality artwork that you would
find displayed on the walls of tattoo studios
worldwide.
Lou Bardach, managing partner of
TattooFinder.com, states: "Traditionally, ink
seekers have been limited to the tattoo
design selections they could find on the
walls at their local studios. Now these virtual
walls of designs‚ are available online at
TattooFinder.com – more designs than
could fit on actual walls in any studio."
While some tattoo-seekers will pick a
design right off the wall (or "as is" on their
website), many choose to have their design
customized by their tattooist before being
applied, or purchase several designs from
the TattooFinder.com site to create something
unique. Tattooists need good art reference,
and all TattooFinder.com customers
receive both tattoo designs and
stencils with each order. Tattoo customers having design reference in hand allows for a much
easier and more exact process for creating custom artwork.
Their site is free to browse, and you don't pay anything until you are ready to download
or print the design you want. They have one of the most sophisticated search engines online
to assist visitors in finding their designs quickly and easily.
According to Rachael Bardach, managing partner and sales manager at
TattooFinder.com, "I've been tattooing for 15 years so I felt like I had a pretty good sense of
what types of tattoo designs my customers were looking for. Some designs like hearts, flowers
and roses are pretty standard for the industry. But the information on keywords we collect
from the site shows me that there are a lot of tattoo designs that people really want
that I would never have guessed would be so popular!"
TattooFinder.com now offers studio accounts, allowing tattooists to refer their customers
to their shops own personalized website that runs the TattooFinder.com system. A
number of shops running studio accounts have the system setup in their shop lobby, providing
their customers access to all the designs TattooFinder.com offers right in their shop.
Studios get a percentage from each design sale conducted through their account.
Tattoo design/flash artists also get a percentage from each sale of their designs. New
designs are constantly being added to their website, as well as artwork by new artists.
TattooFinder.com was honored to be recently awarded one of the "Top 100 Sites" on
the Web by PC Magazine, a leading resource for Internet and computer technologies.
So, if you're looking for a tattoo design, or a shop looking to expand your flash options
online, then check out all they have to offer at www.tattoofinder.com.
