It’s almost a year since the first QR Code talking head ‘A Very Creative Curriculum Vitae’ and there have been a few others since then such as ‘Reporters Without Borders’. Now Valiant Comics has produced what it says is the world’s first QR Code talking comic book cover. The campaign kicks off with posters (image […]
Art or commerce? RESULTCO’s Detroit Storefront Project which turns empty store windows into QR Coded shopping walls are definitely both. Using stunning graphics with a trompe l’oeil effect and laser printing these are the best virtual store fronts I have seen. The image below of Joe Louis’s arm has 47 different watches each with its […]
We are used to seeing artists use QR Codes in their works but you don’t see them using other 2d codes very often. Filmmaker and digital artist Lisa Kaselak’s latest work in conjunction with creative director and designer Lee Billington “Tag: We’re It” is a wall of identical black droplets (a memory field) which as […]
2d-code reader Harald Haraldsson of technology start-up Wonwei emailed to tell me about their collaboration with Icelandic telecommunications company Síminn on an interactive music installation during the recent Iceland Airwaves music festival in Reykjavik. The installation integrates people’s movement with music and QR codes, generating sequences of interactive geometric shapes. At regular intervals the shapes […]
Bret daCosta is taking two dimensional barcode art to new extremes. Using the Microsoft Tag as his pallet Bret has invented techniques that allow him to create the most extreme and beautiful 2d barcode art I have seen (images below). Works of art in themselves they retain all the functionality of a Microsoft Tag. You […]
Canadian artist Kyle Clements has made a wooden QR Code from laser-cut, oak and birch veneer and has videoed the process through to its successful conclusion (video below). The QR Code resolves to “Site 3 coLaboratory” a member run maker space for art and technology collaboration in downtown Toronto. Kyle has a couple of other […]
On a movie poster, is it better to have the QR Code tucked away in the corner or as the focal point in the form of a designer code? All over LA are posters for Bob and the Monster (a documentary on musician Bob Forrest and his battle with drug addiction) featuring a large […]
Artist and designer Yiying Lu, the creator of Twitter’s Fail Whale, is illustrating a series of fashion notables (including Anna Wintour, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) for the inaugural print issue of Meets Obsession magazine. Each of the illustrations (images below) incorporates a QR Code that allows readers to download free digital versions of Lu’s artwork […]
QR Codes have been used before at film festivals for promotion and advertising but tomorrow sees the start of the world’s first “QR Code Film Festival”. The festival is organized in Korea only thru July 21-31 (Asia-pacific Time / GMT + 9:00) and will take place anywhere in the world where there is internet […]
Sweza, Berlin based urban artist was last seen preserving graffiti for posterity using QR Codes. His latest project on the streets of Berlin is QRadio, an audio-visual paste up marrying QR Codes and music. The video below shows QRadio in operation.