Designer Thorunn Arnadottir exhibited some of her African beadwork QR Codes in last weeks London’s Royal College of Art graduation show. Also as part of her ‘QR U’ project Thorunn has designed a QR Code dress using Swarovski crystals for pop star Kali of Icelandic group Steed Lord (images below). One of the QR Codes […]
Seattle based reggae artist Adrian Xavier sang what he called a “QR Code song” at the Fremont Fair yesterday (image below). You can see the full performance here.
The Palais des Arts et des Congrès in Vannes north-western France recently hosted “Paris fait son show”, an international exhibition of QR Code art (video below). At least two of the artists will be familiar to 2d-code readers, SET Japan and Patrick Donnelly of QRarts (images below). Curated by QRdressCode they are keen for the […]
Textile QR Codes for display at the Cornerhouse QR-3D Autumn exhibition will be chosen from the QR-3D Flickr pool and entries are now invited (how to take part). One example that caught my eye is Detroit artist Rachel Rose’s embroidered sheep (image below) which was inspired by the cover of the 1st edition of ‘Do […]
ScanMe QR Codes link to any social media profile, website or email address with the ability for users to change the information that is displayed through a control panel from a smartphone. Now there is a range of T-shirts available for users to display their QR Code. What makes this an interesting development is that […]
Billie Bond sent a picture (below) of her new polished black ceramic sculpture ‘A Link with the Past’ incorporating a QR Code made from 1400+ 3mm ceramic tiles. The sculpture depicts a modern young mother (smartphone clutched in hand) stylised as an Egyptian deity while the QR Code resolves to a page on Billie’s website […]
A group of volunteers who aim to bring entertaining cultural experiences to a wider audience calling themselves Pervasive Bordeaux have placed high quality reproductions of Italian Renaissance art in Italian restaurants in Bordeaux. QR Codes on table cards invite the customers to contemplate the painting and to access a short commentary through their smartphones while […]
Be warned if you complete this puzzle and scan the code you will wish you hadn’t! Single click (do not drag) the square horizontally or vertically adjacent to the empty square to move the pieces till you get a working QR Code.
Create your own sliding puzzle at ProProfs Brain Games.
As far as I know this is only the fourth QR Code related item to appear on eBay and certainly the most prosaic. The first was a novel published on a T-shirt the second was a QR Code calendar and the third was for custom business cards and stickers. The auction for the Blackjazz Plaque […]
Selfridges is displaying Hussein Chalayan’s Urban Mobility collection as a QR Coded artwork. Triangular steel rods of different heights displaying QR Codes, cities, districts and coordinates play on the travel reference. The QR Codes I have scanned are bit.ly URLs that resolve to a Google Map location. The installation is a unique blend of retail […]