It’s been five months since one of the greatest shows ever to grace the small screen has gone off the air, but if you’re one of the many rapt Breaking Bad fans, you’re probably still pretty deep in mourning. Fortunately for you, Hungarian designer Zsolt Molnár (Zsutti) decided to pay homage to the meth-loaded masterpiece by designing a poster for each of the show’s 62 episodes. And each one is absolutely fantastic.
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Nothing could be more familiar than the original Star Wars poster, featuring Darth’s head looming over our light saber-wielding heroes. But that poster has gone through a lot of mutations in its lifetime, as the movie journeyed across the globe. Here are some of the weirdest and most obscure Star Wars posters in existence.
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How many rappers can possibly have a name that’s anchored by the word big? Or lil? Or fat? Or slim? Or any other adjective used to describe size? The answer is a lot, and if you don’t believe me, check out The Massive Map of Hip Hop Monikers—an extensive visualization of names in hip hop from Pop Chart Lab.
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San Francisco is not large, but it does contain multitudes. Though many have left their hearts in the seven-by-seven mile spot at the tippy-top of this Pacific Ocean-lined peninsula, each and every loyal local and on-the-road vagabond who’s made his way through the beautiful Bay Area hub forms a highly personal take on the place.
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So you want a Star Wars poster featuring all the characters, but Jar Jar Binks and kid-Anakin keep polluting the scene? I feel your pain. But a new print by artist Max Dalton and put out by Spoke Art has you covered. It has all your favorite heroes…from episodes IV-VI and nothing else.
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Remember before video games had polygons? Or online play? Or more than just an "A" and "B" button? When ducks were hunted and princesses were in another castle? Well now you can stare into that cyclone of NES history with this tornado of video-game-days-gone-by from Pop Chart Labs.
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So Into Darkness was fun
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In New York City, you can cross the street and then—bam!—you’re in a completely different neighborhood. But those exact boundaries are hard to pinpoint, and they’re always changing. These minimalist maps by Archie’s Press condenses them into simple circular designs that convey the way neighborhoods overlap.
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Like Star Trek? How about fan art? Then you’d better head on over to our brother-from-another-mother website MightyMega and enter to win one of three books of cool Star Trek art created by illustrator Juan Ortiz.
Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz is a 112-page hardcover book which features imaginative poster designs for each of the original 80 episodes of Star Trek. It’s as if each episode was a movie, the way Juan looks at it. The book is chockful of awesome images, and has recently hit store shelves.
Head on over to MightyMega now for your chance to win. The contest ends on 9/11/2013 at 11:59 CDT, and there are lots of ways to earn entries.
What if you could capture the entire history of recorded human existence into one epic infographic for the ages? Crazy, right? Back in the 1930s, a man named John B. Sparks tried—and The Vault recently dug up his attempt. It’s called the Histomap, and it’s still incredible nearly 100 years later, if just slightly out of date.
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