Awesome Infographics

Crate Style’s family tree posters both decorate and educate. Their already available beer chart explains the countless varieties of brew, while the forthcoming whiskey chart schools us on distilled spirits from around the world.

Pop Chart Lab tracks the history of music players with The Advance of Audio Apparatuses. The 24″ x 36″ print contains 219 notable devices across 173 years, cataloging the transition from apparatus to app. Zoom in here.

Tim Leong’s book presents trivia about comic books and comic book characters using stylish charts and infographics. Hardcore comic fans shouldn’t expect an encyclopedia though: Tim seems to have focused more on fun than facts.

The guys at Vulture took several of Pixar’s most popular franchises, removed all of the good parts (animation, art, characters, story), and turned them into informative infographics which belong in some executive’s PowerPoint deck.

Superman has been with us for 75 years, and he’s had a different look for almost every one of them. See 170 different Men of Steel in this massive infographic courtesy of SupermanHomepage.

Pop Chart Lab updated their Evolution of Video Game Controllers infographic, converting it from a poster to a t-shirt. The graphic contains more than 100 controllers spanning 60 years of gaming.

Know anyone who likes beer and colors? The 200 shades of the Beertone Reference Guide will begin with bright beers and end with dark ones, and each will have its own picture and description.

Hacker/Astronomer/Gamer/DJ/Scotsman Scott Manley created this visualization of asteroid discoveries from 1980 to 2012. Don’t call Bruce Willis yet – each pixel is 500,000 km in distance.

68 cocktails with corresponding diagrams, mappings of spirits, garnishes, and more adorn this clever signed and numbered, limited edition guide to classic cocktails poster from the Pop Chart Lab.

This rather amusing infographic offer some frightening speculation on what’s coming to get us depending on where we live. We truly want to know why the Succubi is coming for Minnesota.

(NSFW Language) (Spoilers) Michael Hobson made a massive (about five mouse wheel scrolls!) timeline showing what’s in store in the coming years, if movies and TV shows are to be believed.

Just a little DNA and a God Complex, and you end up with an island full of raptors. Tal Moskovich helps us understand our prehistoric pals in this video, backed by Sam Neill’s movie dialogue.

Some of the worst sins of the reel world presented as humorous infographics by design studio Wing for the New York International Film Festival. We’re not sure about the movie ≠ film part though.

Dan Abramson’s very amusing map of the USA as interpreted by New Yorkers, who apparently have no sense of geography, seems pretty fair, considering the world revolves around Gotham.

We hate PowerPoint decks as much as the next guy, but this presentation from a few years back pretty much sums up why you can pretty much make anything into a slideshow. PDF version here.

Telling your stylist that you’d like a Busta Rhymes is a lot easier, thanks to this visual compendium which features memorable haircuts in popular music from the last century. (Thanks Franz!)