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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One of the fascinating things about modern epics like, The Lord of the Rings, Naruto or Star Wars is the quantity and diversity of their characters. Illustrator Max Dalton shows us the many faces that appeared in the original Star Wars trilogy with his limited edition poster, simply titled Episode IV – VI:
The 18″ x 24″ poster shows nearly every character in the first Star Wars trilogy, arranged in the order of their appearance. Max also included different versions of the main characters. You’ll see Han Solo and frozen Han Solo, living Obi-Wan and ghost Obi-Wan etc.
You can buy the poster from Spoke Art for $50(USD) unframed or to $170 framed. It’s limited to just 500 pieces. Buy or miss out; there is no reprint.
[via The Fire Wire]
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]
Pauline Acalin mashed up the Neil deGrasse Tyson reaction meme with Nintendo’s classic boxing game Punch-Out!! to create this funny print. Can you imagine what physics boxing would be like? Chess boxing would be a walk in the park compared to that.
What’s that?
You beat Glass Joe?
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You can order Pauline’s print at the it8bit store for just $5.50 (USD).
Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro said that he wanted the robots to be unique. Apparently that also applies to their names. How else do you explain monikers like Gipsy Danger and Striker Eureka? And now we have 4th String Jaegers:
4th String Jaegers is a single purpose blog. Its contributors use the Jaeger Designer web app that Warner Bros. made to promote the movie to create hilarious posters featuring their own ideas for Jaeger names. Some of them bring countries to the mix to make puns, while others go off on another tangent and replace the names with funny captions instead. Sadly some of them use offensive language, so the blog isn’t safe for kids.
4th String Jaegers accepts contributions from anyone, and the Jaeger Designer is still online. Make your own 4th String Jaeger and cancel the apocalypse! Or just delay its flight! There is a Jaeger named Caramel Fluffybutt, your argument is invalid!
[via I Heart Chaos]
You might want to usher any kids out of the room before you continuing reading this post, because the honest titles The FW came up with for a bunch of Disney movies might just be too honest for their tastes.
If you’ve seen other trailers and posters that have been dubbed as “honest”, then you know it’s the most blunt and straightforward version of events minus the fairy tale aspect of the story.
Some of the titles are cruelly apt, while others are just hilarious and fitting. My favorite is the one for Beauty and the Beast. It’s one of my favorite Disney movies and Belle having Stockholm syndrome isn’t very hard to believe. Let’s just hope they really ended up happily ever after.
You can check out the rest of the honest Disney titles in the gallery below.
[via Neatorama]
There are many stupid ways to do yourself in, and advertising agency McCANN has turned a bunch of them into colorful and completely adorable posters for public consumption.
Remember the animated PSA Australia’s Metro Trains released over half a year ago? The catchy clip got over 50 million views and featured the same cheery characters singing about dumb ways to die in an effort to make people more conscious of their surroundings and safety when they’re at the train station.
The PSA was part of an effort by Metro Trains to reduce the number of train-related deaths.
I think they make that point across very well. There are really so many dumb ways to die – you just have to make sure you’re not dumb enough to die in such a manner – or you might end up a posthumous recipient of a Darwin Award.
[via Laughing Squid]
Illustrator Josh Mirman takes his word-shaping talents to the Galactic Federation. As he did with Mario and other classic videogame characters, Mirman drew the heroine Samus Aran in his Very Wordy style – her body parts are made of words related to her.
As with his previous creations – including these awesome Mega Man posters – you can buy Code of a Bounty Hunter printed on paper or on a T-shirt.
You can order a Code of a Bounty Hunter poster or t-shirt from Zen Monkey Studios for $10-$20 (USD) depending on the size of the poster. The t-shirt sells for $17 to $19 depending on size as well.
[via Gamefreaks]
Sloths have already made their way to Disney Studios, so it was only a matter of time before they crossed over to Hollywood.
The Poke decided it was time to release remakes of hit movies and cult classics with a slothy twist by asking its readers to replace most of the leads with – you guessed it -sloths!
The result is an endearing bunch of movie posters where sloths take center stage. Replacing the likes of Will Smith, David Hasselhoff, Al Pacino, and Clint Eastwood, sloths prove once and for all that they’re just as virile and talented as their human counterparts.
I jest. But the posters are good for a few laughs, and you can check some of the funniest ones in the gallery below.
[via Hi Consumption via Incredible Things]
Some of us are such video game addicts that we sometimes imagine the world as a sort of video game, IRL. That’s exactly what it looks like the artist behind this poster was thinking when he created this Tetris world map.
In this world map by artist Stephen Gowland of KIACO, continents and islands have been replaced with precisely interlocked Tetris bricks. What I love about this design is that they really are the proper shapes and colors from an actual game of Tetris.
I wonder how much work it took to figure out exactly which shapes to use for each part of the geography. I can’t imagine it was an easy task.
The A3-size (~16″ x 12″) print of the Tetris world map sells for £10 (~$15 USD), while the A2-size (~23″ x 16″) version sells for £14 (~$22 USD). The artist says he can also print it in A1-size (~33″ x 24″), but you’ll want to check with him for pricing.
Only one problem I can see with this design… Shouldn’t the countries start vanishing as complete lines of bricks are stacked up to form them?
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