TITLE: Coded Mario MEDIUM: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop This was a typography project for a digital media class with the theme being "Text as Image", meaning when you first see it, you instinctly know that it is text being shown to you, however your first impulse is to read what you are seeing as though it were an image. My classmates called this one 'Big Mario' as the result was a 7ft by 7ft wall poster of the iconic 8-bit image of mario completely composed of various text fonts, colors and sizes each spelling out the word "Mario". On the right, you can see the scale of the poster in relation to the NES sitting on the chair. I wanted to play up the theme that you were seeing Mario on a wall mounted television set of sorts enlarged so big that you can actually see what makes up Mario, and rather than it being sprites of color, it is sprites of text that actually spell his name. One further exploration I might consider one of these days is to create a wall mural recreating the first stage of Super Mario Bros. with each object or tile rendered into text that spell what they are, such as a brick block, question mark block, cloud, tree, goomba, koopa, et cetera.