Looking for a stylish way to show off your fandom without spending an arm and an leg (or $100,000 on a boxset in this dudes case)?
This cheap alternative to your crusty band tee will not only flaunt your music geekdom, but will provide a little bit of music history in the process.
The Advance of Audio Apparatuses is a huge print that’s the perfect fit for any sonic enthusiast, displaying 170 years worth of music-playing devices in one poster-sized place, as Gizmodo reports.
The design comes from the talented people at Pop Chart Lab, who have offered similarly visual glossaries for everything from beer and sneakers to nerdier concerns like videogame controllers and an ‘omnibus of superpowers‘, but their latest concoction is sure to tickle the fancy of audiophiles.
The Advance of Audio Apparatuses is a smart, concise collection of hand-illustrated music players dating as far back as 1840, with the ‘Key Wind’, a device that predates the Thomas Edison-invented cylinder-playing Phonautograph, right through to this year’s latest offering for Apple obssessives, the iPhone 5S.
There’s plenty of famous faces among the 219 players collected, from the classic bar-style jukeboxes of the mid-50s, to the iconic 80s boombox, and even Sony’s rogues gallery of now-defunct devices like the cassette-playing WalkMan (ask your folks, kids) and its swiftly superseded next-gen countepart the MiniDisc player.
There’s also some stranger sorts among the familiar CD and Vinyl playing devices, such as the luxury Swiss-made Goldmund Reference turntable and the equally clunky chrome looking Transrotor Artus, and the wonky phone that is the Panasonic R-72 ‘Toot-A-Loop’. Then there’s the ream of mp3 players in the early oughties before Apple’s iPod sweeped most of the competition aside will surely bring up some warm and fuzzy memories for the Napster generation.
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Who knows, there may even be an updated version soon enough that will simply include a big computer screen with logos for streaming services like Spotify, Deezer, Pandora et al.
The Pop Chart Lab print is also signed and numbered to show off its limited availability and uses fancy recycled stock “certified by The Forest Stewardship Council.”
You can view a smaller scale version of The Advance of Audio Apparatuses below or pre-order here for around AU$ 33.
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