QR-Codes and Bar Code Art
March 30th, 2008 | Published in Design & Art, Web & Tech
Bar code art has become geek chic, iconic and popularized by artists such as Scott Blake. Next generation bar code utility and creativity is taken one step further by the the QR-Code. Gaining popularity in Japan an Europe, the QR-Code is a way to use a mobile device to capture data, text or a URL. The user snaps a photo of the QR-Code and the phone makes the translation. It’s uses are endless in communication or just for fun like in the recent Pixel Scarf. Each of the limited edition scarves have a QR-Code at the bottom. When photographed with certain mobile phones, they reveal different secret messages. It’s geek chic at it’s finest. The New York Times has a story that provides history and insight into the technology and the potential creativity in its uses.
“As with previous advances linked to mobile-phone technology, the United States currently lags Europe and particularly Japan, where the new codes already appear on packaging. Future QR Code scarves will link up to things like a music download or a special cellphone game. But the real attraction of these codes appears to be not just cracking them but making your own. Two-dimensional codes have “this democratic thing,” as Fischer puts it. “You can create your own, put hidden messages in it,” he said. “There’s something playful in it.“ Read the full Story, Style Decoder
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Scott Black, Bar Code Art
QR-Code Scarf
QR-Code at Wikipedia
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