QR Code Press

ʻSmartʼ cellphone-skins open new ways for mobile data exchange and device customization

01/21/2012 Guest Post

With the ability to scan and transfer data from skin to skin, the QR code embedded Yumskins provide a new way for users to interact with each other. All-in-one solution: The self-adhesive, splash-shielded skins come in silver, holographic and gold. Users can choose or make own designs online, preview skins in Augmented reality (AR), embed QR codes into designs and finally print them on any inkjet printer. The QR codes can store URLs, social media information, vCards or plain text. A QR and AR recognition technology based audio, video and…

Blending technology and art: Some of the recent projects from artist Yiying Lu

01/16/201201/16/2012 Stephen Vagus

Innovative modern artist Yiying Lu is making waves in the mobile world. Lu, who has created designs for Conan O’Brien, Twitter, TBS and several other companies, has been incorporating QR codes and augmented reality into her work for some time. Among her most recent projects include custom wall graphic for the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, California, and she was in attendance at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Nevada to show off her work. The Computer History Museum recently held its Australia Week event, which aimed to show…

Augmented reality app makes adbusting a legal and viable way to make art

01/14/201201/14/2012 Stephen Vagus

Adbusting is a growing trend in the Eastern and Western U.S. Adbusting, also known as culture jamming, sees artists coming together to change existing advertisements with works of art. These works often hold some cultural commentary and are seen as vandalism in large cities. For some artists, the issue of vandalism can be quite the deterrent. As such, artists have begun using augmented reality as a way to carry out their adbusting goals. The Public Ad Campaign, a group of New York-based artists that considers all advertisements to be public…

Not all QR codes are created digitally

12/26/201112/26/2011 Julie Campbell

Though the traditional QR code is created by a computer with the appropriate software, this isn’t always the case, and various artists are starting to demonstrate this fact by creating the barcodes using their own techniques and styles. Award winning David Sykes, an advertising photographer, for example, creates QR codes out of everyday objects, such as wine bottles, boots, or anything else he can get his hands upon. One of his most recent accomplishments is a photograph of a 64 square foot QR code made out of shoes and boots…

Artist uses smartphone to get around censorship for nudity

11/18/201111/18/2011 John Montgallo

A photographer with a specialization in images of nude forms has discovered a way to use smartphone technology in order to avoid nude censorship of one of his pieces which is on display at Fredericton city hall. The artist’s name is Jeff Crawford, and he received an invitation to display his art as a part of an artwork exhibit during the summer series for the Artists-in-Residence of the Fredericton Arts Alliance. Crawford’s submission was a photograph which was entitled “Emersion”. It featured a woman lying in a stream in the…