Bon Iver Frontman Picks Winner of Tattoo Design Contest

Bon Iver Frontman Picks Winner of Tattoo Design Contest
Article by: SlingerVille Staff
September 28, 2012

Bon Iver frontman, Justin Vernon put out an open call to tattoo artists earlier this month for his 99 designs tattoo design contest and Rolling Stones has released an article revealing who he chose!

“Vernon announced in mid-September that he was searching for a tattoo inspired by Northern Exposure, the TV series that yielded the Bon Iver moniker, in the style of Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphons Mucha.”

Vernon picked an Italian artist and designer Giulio Rossi as the winner of 99 designs! Twenty-six tattoo artists presented 59 entries total.

"In the episode, a woman transforms a gold rush village into a cultural place with one single dance in a tavern. They name the town after her, Cicely, Alaska. The art direction in the episode is unmistakably Mucha and I want to get a very large tattoo of this on my left arm," Vernon wrote earlier this month. "This is a really important thing to me... I don't know how to express that exactly... It's a TV show but it weirdly explained my life to me. Cicely is the metaphor for that."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bon-iver-frontman-picks-winner-of-tattoo-design-contest-20120926#ixzz27hWSmZKM

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