All you Babes Lovers around the globe: here we are with our first official Babes Papes edition.
Manufactured at the end of 2015, now ready to get touched by your soft hands. The artwork was provided by infamous illustrator Franke, who specializes in bringing beautiful and men-seducing pin up ladies to life.
Every kid that followed the legendary show “Yo MTV Raps” in the late nineties had one main goal: to listen to and watch the coolest, hottest Rap and Hip Hop videos. But one day, Chris Cunningham’s infamous music video for Aphex Twin’s “Windowlicker” made its debut late at night on this particular show and confronted all Hip Hop fanatics not only with the roughest hood dialogue in music video history, but also with a sound that was far way from what Hip Hop, Rap or R&B was known for back then. Only the intro of the video – the scene with the two homies trying to flirt with the hood rats and the booty shaking dancers getting jizzed all over with champagne – at the end of the clip, had a touch of Hip Hop music video vibes typical for that period.
The main difference between the audio track by Aphex Twin and the music video for windowlicker, is that the audio song has no intro. The audio track, by Richard D. James, is a pure electronic track just like any other produced by him in the past. Most of the guys who saw the video the first time loved it, not only because of the sound, but mostly because of the video, which was something nobody had ever seen until then. Like Aphex Twin´s limousine pushed away the little shitty convertible, this video directed by Chris Cunningham took over the “Yo! MTV Raps” music video hip hop party and blew everybody out of their seats.
Young lovely Isabel from Germany was introduced to us last summer by a friend of ours. She’s fresh, exciting, and born to be mellow. With the focus on her studies in Manual and Material Culture, she also finds the time to pursue her passion in graphic designs on the side.
One of our most favorite songs of brazilian artist Criolo is the song “sucrilhos” (cornflakes). It was also the song, which got us introduced to the following artist, who is considered a superstar in his country. At the end of the song is a section about his identity, which is also a reference to the various native tribes that exist within the brazilian population.
Since the brazilian national anthem is, let’s say, nothing special, like pretty much all the national anthems out there, we thought that the last words in the song of Criolo should represent the national anthem of Brazil, andmaybe even of the whole world.
Our beloved friends and fans!
Let us introduce to you another Artist Papes edition by stone-cold-maxin’ visual artist Mr Fuzzy Slipperz a.k.a. Lisolomzi Pikoli from Pretoria, South Africa!
Fuzz was introduced to us by a mutual web friend, who we never met in person, but who got in touch with us on Instagram and told us how good looking and cool we are. After such a compliment, we kind of felt obliged to look for talented artists in South Africa, who’d be interested in working with us. With the help of our friends recommendation, we discovered talented Mr Fuzzy Slipperz, who got us on the hook with his style, that we have never experienced before. Continue reading
Ladies and Gentlemen, B-Girls and B-Boys, Mamas and Papas, meet graffiti and visual artist Viva La Vandal
Based out of London, United Kingdom this mysterious artist has been on top of the game for many years now and he’s been busy non-stop providing eye-candy to his loyal fan base. Imagine him as a chef, stirring up a touch of tattoo art, with a spoon of b-boy and b-girl attitude, tiny cut pieces of comic history, and a breeze of babes flavour. As a an example we present you this delicious looking Artist Papes designed by Viva La Vandal! Continue reading
Babes Papes is proud to present you Artist Papes by Miss Kittin
For those of you who don’t know who Miss Kittin is…well, we suggest you just listen to her music and let her introduce herself to you. Fans of Miss Kittin know that she also has a passion for drawing. Her website, for example, contains graphic elements drawn by her.
World Premiere!
The very first soccer club on the planet with its own custom designed rolling papers
Babes Papes proudly presents Rille Fix custom designed premium rolling papers.
Rille Fix is the modern version of Winston Wolfe (a.k.a. The Wolf) the special character from the movie Pulp Fiction. You got a problem that needs to get solved?! Rille is gonna fix it for you!
Our latest collaboration led us to the agencies Supertrumpf and ask!, who together developed a special smart phone app called Seedio.
Remember those days when you were filling up your ghetto blaster with 10 units of big sized batteries in order to listen to dope music in the park together with your friends?
Well, these days are over. No need to spend a lot of money on batteries which only last for half a day. No need to carry around a ghetto blaster which weighs a ton. Seedio makes all these problems vanish.
We’re happy to present you Artist Papes by Fefe Talavera:
We met Fefe back in 2011 while she was visiting friends in central Europe. By that time we hadn’t had produced a single booklet and Babes Papes existed only in theory. The first time we met her through mutual friends we introduced oursleves and told her about the brand, the people involved, and our goals. It didn’t take long to convince her to work with us and to provide us with a custom design for our first series of Artist Papes. Once she delivered the design, it was hard to tell what to expect from the final product.
Babes Papes is proud to present custom designed rolling papers by Grafikdesseins:
Our beloved partner, friend, and family member GDS developed a design which at first sight appears very minimalistic. Upon closer inspection, a sophisticated approach and perfect conversion are revealed.
