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QRCode Commando Patch
©2008 tikaro
It was only a matter of time before someone made a QR Code commando patch! This is going to be added to my TAD Gear Stealth Jacket SS posthaste…
Here’s a velcro-backed QRcode patch I’ve been working on. It’s a polyester-twill patch, with the design applied using dye sublimation (so it’s waterproof.) Each p8tch contains a unique encoded URL. That URL can be read by mobile phones, now including the iPhone!
The patch links to a configurable proxy URL. Each p8tch comes with a unique keyphrase that allows you to set the destination. So your patch can link to:
* Your blog,
* Your Flickr photostream,
* Your Facebook/MySpace page
* A Google map link to your secret headquarters,
* Your Amazon Wish list/PayPal tip jar
…whatever you want.Your friend snaps a picture of the QRcode with their mobile phone, and then they’re looking at the URL you set. You know, just like in Japan.
Of course, that’s assuming your friend has a steady hand and some patience; the iPhone QRcode readers are in their infancy, but with some patience and good light, I can reliably shoot a patch with the iPhone. More mature QRcode readers like the ones on board the Nokia N95 are faster (but rarer in the US.)
The design at the top is by Kenn Munk, and there are several available (cf. the next picture)
You can now buy your own at www.p8tch.com!
Source: Velcro Backed QRcode Patches
BAPE iGoogle Theme
Get the ‘A Bathing Ape®’ iGoogle Theme
NIGO®’s is the founder of the rapidly expanding, Tokyo streetwear brand A Bathing Ape®, or BAPE®, as well as a DJ in the TERIYAKI BOYZ® and owner of the music label (B)APE SOUNDS®.
Barcode Plantage Visualization Application
Apple Computer barcode-plantage
© Daniel A. Becker 2008
BARCODE PLANTAGE transforms a simple product bar code into a unique tree in the garden of globalisation
One can find it on almost all products: the bar code. Everyone knows that the bar code is used to facilitate the cashing and recording of goods in stores. But which information is actually encoded within the bar code?
A simple answer to this question can be found at one of the product databases on the Internet, which are basically huge networks of national code databases.Keying in the 8, 12 or 13 digit figures of a bar code into an international code database, returns information on the manufacturer and the country of origin of the product. Moreover, each bar code is assigned to only one product worldwide; but these individual details are hardly visible to the naked eye.
Via barcode-plantage (Germany)
RISD Art Show for SF Alumni, 6/27
RISD SF ALUMNI, ONE NIGHT STAND
June 27th
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Mina Dresden Gallery
312 Valencia Street (@14th Street)
415.863.8312
I Hope This Gets On A Graphic Design Blog®
©2008 http://www.theamazingshape.co.uk/
Could not resist cross-posting this one from FFFFound…
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Jonathan Wells, “The champion”
Photo by Kevin Scanlon ©2008
My good friend Jonathan Wells the founder of RES back in the day has recently been featured in the LA Weekly… His new project is called Flux… Nice one JW!
Designers Note: Meg Wells chose that lime green paint color… it is a no-VOC, environmentally friendly paint from Yolocolorhouse.
MoMode Globe Clock Flashlite Screensaver
I found this Flashlite screensaver and site MoMode by mistake while searching for some top notch design and animation examples for a mobile research project I was working on. Turns out the person who runs this shop is one guy and his brother and they have a couple of other equally cool designs for Flashlite screensavers. The MoMode screensaver runs on any mobile phone device that supports Flashlite. I installed it on my Nokia N80 handset (running Symbian series60 rev3 OS) but it works on the Nokia N95, N73, etc…
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