NEWS: Designer Barcodes

GEEK: Designer Barcodes

Design Barcode, Inc. has developed unique and stylish barcodes which take the bars beyond the block. Transforming the rectangle of various line widths into surfers riding waves, cheese dripping from pizza, grand pianos, etc. seems reminiscent of work done on the streets by the stencil community over the years, though these barcodes are to aid consumerism instead of speak out against it. The first functional piece of barcode art will appear on popular bottled green tea products in Japan.

wow. that's cool. thanks for sharing!

and you advertise for the company???

j/k

interesting, but it does seem like another takeover of counter culture, by the mass marketing mega machine of capital.

That is really cool. I wish the English version of the website was working.

pretty cool, suprising that it took this long to do something creative with barcodes. (they do still work normally right?)

Thats lame. If that bar code is readable, then it would be readable without the upper 80%. I see this going no where

what'll it matter when rfid tags take over little grocery stores everywhere?i want these people to make me tatoos

now the checker who can't get the scanner read the barcode the first four hundred times is going to *bleep* the code another four hundred times. super.

To err is human.

[Edited on Feb 10, 2005 by aj]