There is a Japanese company called D-Barcode
which took on a mundane, boring, and unimaginative part of our consumer life and gave it a makeover: Barcodes. This is one of those ideas they are so simple, that it took a designer genius to come up with it. The result, I may say, is absolutely cool:
Beautiful Japanese Barcodes
If I had any kind of company that sold packaged products, I’d immediately steal this idea.
More Beautiful Japanese Barcodes
Nice, huh?
(Via Dark Roasted Blend.)
i had seen a few of these before, but the more the merrier!
thanks for all your work finding and sharing the weird wonders of japan
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Nice idea, but barcodes will soon be a thing of the past as they are being replaced by RFID tags and newer technologies.
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I just tested with a hand scanner. None of the above are scannable, probably because they’ve been scaled down. On the site, only the “Flowers” and “MAD” magazine codes are read.