Elias Varga edits the Styles, Ideas and Meanings desks, following tattoo style families, motifs, symbols, placement and sizing.
Topics covered
Elias Varga writes about tattoo style families, from linework traditions to shading approaches. Each page opens with the answer: what a style is, where its visual features come from, and how it differs from neighboring styles. The detail follows in plain terms.
On motifs, symbols and meanings, Elias Varga separates what a design has carried in a given culture from what it has come to mean in modern use. Placement and sizing pages describe how composition and body shape interact, without prescribing a choice for any reader.
Desks in the journal
Styles
Ideas and Meanings
How the work is done
Elias Varga reads what has been published on each subject, drawing on public institutions, museums, libraries, encyclopedias and specialized publications. A fact appears on a page only when a source cited at the foot of that page supports it. Where sources disagree, the page says so.
Before publication, the pages go through the review of Nora Whitlock, editor in chief.
