QR Code Press

QR codes see considerable progress in China

02/04/201302/02/2013 John Montgallo

The smartphone friendly barcodes are being noticed by Chinese device users and scans are rising. Though there has been some doubt as to whether or not QR codes would ever fully catch on, 2013 seems to be presenting some very promising trends worldwide, with the latest coming from China. The National Art Museum of China, for example, provides information about its pieces through barcodes. For this, and hundreds of other reasons, smartphone users in China are scanning QR codes as never before. This is the result of a company called…

Super Creative QR Code Renegade Art Installation

03/23/201103/23/2011 L. Green

It is becoming more apparent that QR codes are not exclusive to the business world. Several hundred origami cranes and paper cubes were found to adorn the trees in the courtyard of the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado. In what is being called a “guerilla art installation,” each of these paper displays features a QR code. When scanned, the codes would resolve to the American Red Cross website, encouraging viewers to make donations to aid the victims of the recent tsunami disaster in Japan. The display was taken down…