COOPER HEWITT MUSEUM

Located in manhattan, my mid-day Adventure began at the Cooper Hewitt museum. As I checked in, I immediately saw lots of cool designs (mainly chairs at first) that caught my attention. The ticket granted visitors with a pen that enables the guest to capture all the things that they admire all around the museum. I saved a lot of eye-catching designs, but there were many that stood out to me. These designs were located on the third floor.

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LAARMAN OBJECT, THE EVOLUTION OF SUPER MARIO, 2015

The first thing I noticed when i arrived at the third floor of the museum was the “LAARMAN OBJECT, THE EVOLUTION OF SUPER MARIO, 2015” work. It was on a large wall but the original piece was a digital print vinyl, in gray scale over a purple wall. This piece stood out to me because, not only I am a super Mario fan, but to see Mario in a Graphic design museum in manhattan was cool. Debuting as the protagonist in the 1985 video game classic “Super Mario Bros” Mario, the plumber from New York City who’s out to save princess Toadstooll (later known a princess peach), appeared as a pixelated figure who was made up of blocks, due to the limited large pixel size of early computer graphics. As mario’s Popularity grew bigger, his pixel size in later games grew smaller while  his resolution size became higher. Then mario evolves  into a more realistic, and less blocky figure over time. This piece represented Mario’s revolution so well, that it made me happy to know that the museum appreciated a video game icon.

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TABLE, GIGAVOXEL, DIGITAL MATTER, 2011

Right behind me as i turn away from the super Mario exhibition, I see this table. At first, I was curious because not only the table looked  pixelated, but it was like if lego’s were shinny. Then as i look closer, I see the Duck, And the  Dog from the Duck Hunt video game classic. I was so amazed because it was like an easter egg for video game fans. then when I stared at the top of the table, I saw PacMan. Thats when i realized that it was from the same artist who worked on the evolution of Mario. as much as I like mario, I thought this table was way visually cooler to look at since it also came in threes as well.