Awesome Charts

This Tyvek Mighty Wallet is nearly impossible to tear. It’s also mighty useful. It’s covered with useful information, like conversion charts, a protractor, geometry and physics equations, and more. Its edges provide inch, centimeter, and pica rulers too. As a wallet, it’s quite functional, too, with multiple card slots and a long main compartment for bills or receipts.

UsefulCharts takes a look back at the 4000+ year history of Modern Latin Script, the letterforms and alphabet used today in English and many other languages. Along the way, you’ll learn about other forms of written communication which don’t use an alphabet. The chart is also available as a 24″ x 36″ poster print.

It’s been some time since we set foot into a video arcade, but back in the day, we pumped more than our share of quarters into arcade machines. Captain Gizmo gathered data on which games raked in the most coin over the years, and it’s amazing how little the rankings changed since the 1980s once you adjust for inflation.

Remember when Home Improvement was the biggest show on TV? Or Roseanne? Data Broz put together this motion infographic which recaps the shifting interests of the U.S. TV viewing public over nearly 70 years. We had no idea that The Beverly Hillbillies was so wildly popular. (Pro tip: play at 2x speed for faster viewing.)

Pop Chart Lab’s scratch-off chart is a great way for cinephiles to check which of the classics they’ve already seen. The poster measures 18″x 24″ and contains tiny posters of 100 great films, including The Best Years of Our Lives, Do the Right Thing and Spirited Away.

Funnyman Matt Shirley is famous on Instagram for making hilarious charts and graphs on a whiteboard. He recently started an online shop where you can grab some of his graphical jokes as 8″x 10″ prints on cardstock. The Cycle of Adulthood needs to be taught in science class.

After almost a year of tweaking, Dirk Loechel has released the final major version of his enormous spaceship size comparison chart. It’s by no means definitive, but at least Dirk included the International Space Station for scale.

Back in 2005, the American Film Institute presented their list of 100 best movie quotes. Designer Nathan Yau of Flowing Data turned the quotes into simple charts and put them into one large poster. You’re gonna need a bigger view.

Dirk Loechel is working on a chart that compares the sizes of spaceships from various sci-fi series. The chart is already daunting and makes for an awesome wallpaper, but he’s far from finished. It barely has any ships from manga and anime.