Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I custommini ' - Austin Kleon

' - Austin Kleon

This lovely rose pin was drawn for Tiny Deer Studio by Natelle Quek and is inspired by their love for nature and vintage floral patterns

the covers were risograph printed by the folks at OutletPDX to capture the feel and style of the originals

"Seminal and subversive

Form and function are carefully considered

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I custommini ' - Austin KleonThe photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3,000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just strange, reflecting as they do the lives and