The beautifully obsessive folks at Pop Chart Lab have a knack for making gorgeous visual histories of things we love, like bicycles, cameras and beer. The lab’s latest is just as lovely: a hand-illustrated view of how we’ve listened to music since 1840. Take a closer look at what you’ve been hearing.
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There comes a time in life when the cheap, watery beer ubiquitous at youthful keg parties and in not-quite-legally-sourced 24-packs just isn’t good enough anymore, when Natty Ice and Keystone Light are upgraded to… absolutely anything but Natty Ice and Keystone Light.
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Chart specialists – chartists? chartologists? – Pop Chart Lab crammed all 709 officially released games for the NES in one print. The spiral chart has 8 arms, each representing a different genre – platformer, RPG, fighter etc. – although they also classified some games under “multi-genre.”
The games are arranged chronologically, with over 100 tiny illustrations for the 8-bit console’s notable games such as Super Mario Bros., Mega Man and the infamous Battletoads. The print measures 24″ x 36″ so I don’t think it will be hard to read or recognize what’s on it. Here’s a closer look at the print:
Pop Chart Lab is selling The Nebula of NES Games print for $32 to $147 (USD) depending on the finishing option. You can order just the print, have it framed, mounted on a panel or installed with hanging rails.
[via The Escapist]
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It must be insanely hard to come up with an original superhero these days, what with the hundreds – or perhaps thousands – of already existing ones. Is there any superpower that hasn’t been taken yet? Just looking at the graphic in Pop Chart Lab’s t-shirt must be enough to make a budding writer sweat bullets. Then prompt him to create Bullet Sweater, the ultimate worrier.
The intimidating chart collates 384 super-powered characters, from Superman to Silent Majority. As mind-boggling as that may be, even a casual comic geek like me knows that this is by no means comprehensive. Bullet Sweater isn’t here, for one thing.
You can order The Giant Omnibus of Superpowers t-shirt from Pop Chart Lab for just $20 (USD). As of this writing I didn’t see the graphic being offered as a print, but you can check out a large image of the chart here.
[via Nerdcore]
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