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Who says barcodes have to be totally rectilinear and dull? These are actually in use on products in Japan.
Barcode art
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday April 3rd, 2008 2:28 PM
Categories: Culture jamming | 4 Comments
Who says barcodes have to be totally rectilinear and dull? These are actually in use on products in Japan.
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday April 3rd, 2008 2:28 PM
Categories: Culture jamming | 4 Comments
My favourite barcode design is the one on the back of the compilation “Wap100: We Are Reasonable People”. It was sort of 3D with a skew in the middle, but just enough horizontal to be usable.
Bonny Doon has a wine label (I think it is the Big House White) whose barcode gradually becomes a top hat held by a skinny hand.
Beauteous!
as cute as they might seem, they also happen to defeat the working process behind the barcode.
each bar code has a dual error check system that works reading the code from both sides (left to right/right to left) and allows you to read it when it’s upside down too.
assume that one of the codes might get scratched in a corner,
if you rely on barcodes for inventory and billing, these cute ones should be shielded properly.
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