Looking for a nice Christmas gift for the Apple diehard in your life? Brooklyn-based Pop Chart Lab’s latest print, The Insanely Great History of Apple, gorgeously maps out the complete history of Apple products over the course of the last thirty years: from the original Apple I to the MacBook Air, from the Newton to the iPhone 4S.
Printed on 100 lb. archival stock certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, the first 500 copies are signed by the artists. Even better, the price is right: The Insanely Great History of Apple is a hell of a deal at just $20 a print.
You can grab the poster over at PopChart Lab, where you can also see a blown-up, zoomed-in version of the design. Want.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
29 responses to “This Insanely Great History Of Mac Print Is The Perfect $20 Holiday Gift For Your Favorite Apple Die-Hard”
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It only goes back 30 years, so the Apple I and II are not represented. Would it have killed them to go back an extra 5 years?
We wanted to, but we also wanted it to fit on an 18×24 piece of paper without everything being really tiny. Someday we could do a larger format one that goes back to 1977.
Still really cool… Definitely grabbing one.
You have the Apple IIGS in early 1986, but it was released in late 1986.
Also, the disk drives on top of the //es are UniDisk drives or something.. Should probably be Disk ][s on at least the original //e.
The iMac line seems to be missing models?
After the G5 iMac there were white, intel based iMac’s in 20 and 24″ (not sure about the 20″ but I have a 24″ White, Intel iMac.
This poster has the iMac line going fro 20″ white, G5 to Aluminum.
Or am I missing something?
It is a great chart, and I’ve already ordered mine. It is however, not complete. Loads of printers and scanners are missing. Also, the original Lisa isn’t properly depicted with the 5.25″ drives. It would have been nice to see the IIGS Woz edition too. The first Power Mac G4 icon shouldn’t look like the Quicksilver because they are quite different in design. I’m sure there are other tweaks which could be made, but hey that’s what v2 is for!
We intentionally left off a bunch of printers–there simply wasn’t room for them and most were different iterations of the same printer with different internal configurations. We’re preparing a blog post now explaining our criteria for what got included and what didn’t.
You’re right about the Lisa, and maybe we’ll throw in the IIgs Woz, too. Re the Quicksilver vs. Graphite issue, I thought the only difference was the color of the sides, but looking again I see the fronts of the cases were slightly different, too. Send me your order number and we’ll send you a version 2.0 when we have it.
Let me look into this. We skipped speed bumps for the most part, but if there was a new form factor intro’d we should have it on there. Thx for the feedback.
Thanks for the offer — I’ve e-mailed you. Also, I plan to promote this chart to my listeners on RetroMacCast. I can certainly understand not including all the printers — there were so many of them! This chart is an excellent tool for collectors like myself. I happen to own everything on the chart with the exception of the original Lisa.
ThaNks for putting this together. I will certainly order one.
Did you leave out the black MacBook intentionally too?
2nd gen iPod shuffle wasn’t square. Still a fantastic print! Will be ordering soon.
It is pretty, but missing the apple TV and the Airport devices. On the layout side, many things aren’t aligned, they are slightly higher or lower. This is probably to show that it was released a month or two later, but your y axis is by year, and makes more sense to align them. As a typography freak this really bugs me. But overall I like it. Thanks for taking the time to create this.
“from the original Apple I…” Jeez John, do you bother to even read this stuff before you post? Oh that’s right, you don’t. Just more Brownlee BS.