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QR Code Rangoli: Diwali festival goes digital in 2016

11/02/2016 Guest Post

Diwali or the festival of lights is a popular Indian festival celebrated by the Hindu, Sikh, and Jain communities across the world. Spiritually, it symbolizes the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. Homes, offices and streets are decorated with colorful flowers, lights, and lamps. An important aspect of the celebration is Rangoli – a traditional floor art created using colored rice flour, sand, or flower petals. QR Code Rangoli by Scanova Scanova, an India-based company that provides QR Code Generation tools, celebrated Diwali by taking Rangoli one…

QR codes out and scannable images are in at Louis Vuitton

11/18/201311/16/2013 Julie Campbell

The luxury designer brand has changed their advertising to take out the visually unappealing barcodes. Despite the fact that Louis Vuitton has taken QR codes out of its print advertising, it is still maintaining the scannability of its ads by making it possible for smartphone and tablet users to scan the entire image instead of just a little barcode. The design house feels that the look of the barcodes was not an appealing part of their advertising. Though the QR codes do provide the opportunity for consumers to be able…

QR codes are now in the form of graffiti art

06/11/201306/08/2013 John Montgallo

The new design is being used in the hope of sharing a more effective message than the standard. The traditional form of QR codes – that is, the type that look like black and white pixilated squares – are found virtually everywhere, these days, but their appearance doesn’t always suit every form of situation in which they could be highly usable. In graffiti art, for instance, the shape of the barcode and the way they are used doesn’t necessarily translate. Though QR codes are now quite recognizable among many smartphone…

QR codes sewn directly into clothing by Dita Von Teese

01/15/201304/13/2014 L. Green

The clothing designer has added smartphone friendly barcodes to her latest line. There is nothing rare about QR codes, these days, as they appear on a growing number of print ads, flyers, product packaging, posters, and storefront displays, but they are also starting to pop up in clever and unique places, such as was the case with the latest clothing line by Dita Von Teese. The clothing designer’s latest vintage inspired line now features these smartphone friendly barcodes. Dita Von Teese has just included herself among an important handful who…

QRHacker offers creation of designer QR codes for businesses and individuals

04/18/201204/18/2012 Jesse Collins

Designer QR codes are becoming more popular as a branding strategy for businesses. These codes are identical to conventional QR codes apart from the fact that they can be embedded with a small logo or graphical design. These designs do not impair the functionality of the codes, however, meaning that will still be useful to a company’s mobile initiatives. Designer codes can be a good way for businesses with a need to reach out to mobile consumers to brand themselves and make their codes stand out from those used by…