For our Featured Artist Series we asked Angga Tantama to take the ape face we already had and give it a personality. His answer was a set of fully built worlds, each one packed with small details that reward a second look.
Angga Tantama x Vapin Ape A logo becomes a character The brief was simple: keep the silhouette people know from the box, and turn it into a character who can show up in different moods and places while always reading as Vapin Ape. Angga does a lot of the storytelling in the environment itself: reflections in the glasses, objects around the head, scenes that set the vibe before you read a word.
Six themes, six worlds Every piece is built around a theme, and each theme has its own set of objects:
Art: creativity and expressionCrypto: investment and wealthGame: entertainment and youthMusic: harmony and joySport: determination and focusSki: flow and coldNone of it is filler. Every object tells you what the ape is doing and what kind of moment you've walked into.
Matched to the strains Angga paired concepts with specific strains so each piece fits the product it sits on.
Animal Mints: music. Headphones, floating notes and a laid-back, building-a-playlist mood.
Animal Mints Grapefruit Durban: art. The ape in maker mode, surrounded by physical and digital tools, with the Vapin Ape wordmark tucked into a notebook and pen.
Grapefruit Durban Gelato: crypto. Trading screens, crypto symbols and a logo bucket hat.
Gelato More faces, more scenes The series keeps growing. Angga's additional faces put the ape into new activities:
Disc golf: disc in flight, the basket, a scorecard, a logo hat and collared shirt.Rocket League: controller, mic and a Vapin Ape car.Snowboarding: outerwear, board and bindings, a lift pass and the chairlift.Additional faces Why it matters We want our packaging to work like a gallery, not just a label. Angga gave us a character with personality and a world deep enough to keep expanding, and it's the foundation for the artist-led drops still to come.
The full series