BAPE x Futura Nosferatu

A Japanese streetwear brand that was founded in 1993 by Tomoaki Nagao, also known as Nigo. The brand is known for its bright, flashy aesthetic and has deep connections to hip-hop and street culture. BAPE's name is a satirical take on the Japanese idiom "A bathing ape in lukewarm water," which describes someone who overindulges. The brand's logo includes a reference to the 1968 film Planet of the Apes. BAPE's iconic camo print is a graphic that blends military camouflage and an abstraction of the ape face. Futura 2000 (born 1955) is an internationally acclaimed graffiti artist. He started to paint illegally on New York's subway in the early seventies, working with other artists such as ALI. In the early eighties he showed with Patti Astor at the Fun Gallery, along with Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Hambleton and Kenny Scharf. Futura 2000 began painting "legally" as the live on-stage backdrop painter for The Clash's 1981 European tour. More recently, he is a successful graphic designer and gallery artist. One of the most distinctive features of Futura's work is his abstract approach to graffiti art. While the primary focus, during the 1980s, of the majority of graffiti artists was lettering, Futura pioneered abstract street art, which has since become more popular. Conversely, his aerosol strokes are regarded as different from those of his peers, as they are as thin as the fine lines achieved only through the use of an airbrush. While he's primarily known as a graffiti artist, much of his work is as an illustrator and graphic designer of record sleeves, first becoming involved with The Clash; producing a sleeve for their "Radio Clash" 7" single and handwriting the sleeve notes and lyrics sheet for their