Popped into my head from out of nowhere a few days ago and I just had to make it. Figured out the Futura Condensed Extra Bold is the font of the original Smokey the Bear poster by running it through WhatTheFont. Took a headshot of ol’ Smokey into Photoshop, reduced it down to about 20 pixels tall and then blew it back up using “nearest neighbor” scaling to retain the pixelation. Took the resulting image into Illustrator and did a quick live-trace so that it’s easily scalable. Printed a few poster-size versions to hang in the classrooms at work.

Tags: Illustrator, Photoshop, Pixelation