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QR Code Generator: QR Stuff Free Online QR Code Creator And Encoder For T-Shirts, Business Cards & Stickers. Custom QR Code Design. Beautiful Designs that Work!

Custom QR Code Design

QR codes are the biggest thing in marketing today, not just for the brands but for the consumers. QR codes make it easy to bridge online information accessed from the offline world through the use of smartphones and other mobile devices. As such, QR codes make your print advertisement, posters, brochures and other printed marketing collaterals more interactive and more easily remembered! It used to be that QR codes are monochromatic: black pixels and boxes on white background. 10 Funniest QR Code Fails. It's become nearly impossible to leave your house without seeing QR codes scattered everywhere.

10 Funniest QR Code Fails

They're on billboards, in your newspaper, even on your cereal box — enticing you to scan them with your smartphone, and then leading you to who-knows-where on the Web. Where will the QR code madness end?! Two designers set out to find the craziest usage of QR (Quick Response) codes and poke fun at them. The result is a new Tumblr called WTF QR Codes "I started taking pictures of them just to capture the ridiculousness," says Brad Frost, a mobile web strategist and front-end designer at digital ad agency R/GA. The site is a side project for Frost and Craig Villamor, who is the director of mobile user experience at Salesforce. "Using QR codes to drive people to the very TV spots they skip over with DVR isn't just bad user experience, it's insulting," says Frost. What Is A QR Code And How Does It Work? Articles September 29, 2011 By now, you’re probably pretty familiar with QR codes (a.k.a. 2-D bar codes), whether or not you realize it.

What Is A QR Code And How Does It Work?

They’re the little square symbols that look like this: The cool part is that anyone can make them. Yes, that includes you. Just Google “QR code generator” and you’ll have a plethora of websites that make it incredibly easy to make your own QR code. Some people have already cracked this code, like Marc Jacobs. The “No-Zones” QR codes are made up of black squares and white squares.

The three large squares highlighted in red are the position markers. Everything Else So now that you know what you can’t edit, that means everything else is free game, right? Now, when a smartphone or scanner reads a QR code, each byte is determined to be either completely readable or completely un-readable. The Really Cool Part In the Marc Jacobs code I linked to earlier, there was a sketch of a small girl covering part of the code. So now you should be able to do the following: QR codes gallery. World’s First Fully Functional QR Code Portraits. As technology is growing day by day we are getting something new each day and as the example of new exploding technology that is QR codes which are widely used these days.

World’s First Fully Functional QR Code Portraits

A QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response code) is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) that is readable by dedicated QR readers, smart phones, and to a lesser extent, computers with webcams. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded may be text, URL, or other data. QR Codes Getting inspired from the QR codes, I have started my "QR code project" in which I am designing QR Code pattern images of influential personalities from around the world. At the same time, I was studying the history of art and design so an idea came into my mind to blend this new technology to create some new designs and this is how QR Code project started. The special thing about these portraits is that they are made using the Error correction capability.

A.P. Which Mags Were Biggest Users of QR Codes in 2011? Mobile action codes are getting harder to miss in magazines.

Which Mags Were Biggest Users of QR Codes in 2011?

That trend is documented by Nellymoser, a mobile marketing firm that supports brands and publishers’ QR campaigns. The firm has a new report out that says that in all of 2011, nearly 4,500 codes appeared in ad and editorial pages in the top 100 titles. Women’s magazines were the biggest users of QR codes in 2011. The biggest was InStyle at No. 1 with 141 codes. It was followed by ESPN The Magazine (136), People (136), Self (126) and Entertainment Weekly (123). The occurrence of such quick-response codes (a broad term encompassing QR codes, Microsoft Tags, SnapTags and others) grew sharply over the year, mostly driven by ad pages. Among brands, nearly 40 percent of the codes came from the beauty, home and fashion industries, led by John Frieda (82), L’Oréal (79), Cuisinart (74), Garnier (72) and Revlon (67). Nellymoser has also found that the more codes an individual magazine issue contains, the higher the response rate.