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There’s a certain amount of pressure on designers when they decide to get tattoos. It’s like a hairdresser’s hairstyle, or an architect’s home—the choices you make seem weightier, more personal somehow, given your background.

Creative Bloq recently asked 21 designers to show off their tattoos, and explain what makes them special. And the designs, and inspirations, are varied and fascinating.

Facebook designer Russ Maschmeyer and freelance letterer and illustrator Jessica Hische got the tattoos above. His is RGB. “I convinced him it would be ‘conceptually stronger’ if I got the CMYK version of the same tattoo,” Hische says. “He was a little freaked out about having a couple’s tattoo, but the more we talked about it the more it made sense. Russ got additive color (RGB) since his career passions were primarily screen-based; I got subtractive color (CMY) because I started my career in print design.”

Typographer Carey Smith has tattoos of 26 tiny letters. “I didn’t start off thinking I’d get the whole alphabet,” she says. “I got the first one (j) on a whim, then the next few (g, a, q) without thinking much about it. … It’s the most uneconomical way of getting tattooed ever. You pay by the hour, and these little letters take about seven minutes each.”

Check out all 21 over at Creative Bloq, which has links to all the tattoo artists as well.

Via Design Taxi.

Get scarred for life for a little extra cash! That's the tempting offer being floated by New York City's Rapid Realty, which is offering employees 15 percent raises if they get the company's logo tattooed on their person. Some 40 employees have already done so—either because they love the firm, need the money, or both. "I was like, Why am I throwing my money away when I could get myself from $25,000 to $40,000 for the same amount of work?" Stephanie Barry, who might not understand what 15 percent means, tells CBS News. "My wife was a little concerned but I said, you know what, it was the best commitment I could think of," said another employee, who's been on the job all of one month. There are no size or placement restrictions—one clearly ashamed employee got a tiny tattoo behind her ear. And actually, the design isn't terrible. Rapid Realty owner Anthony Lolli pays for the tattoos, which cost up to $300 each. But tellingly, he has yet to get one himself.