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QR-Code Cross Stitch Patch. About SET « SET JAPAN. Designer Barcodes - Behind The Work. A recent design project from Japan infuses contemporary art into ho-hum QR code graphics. To tout Takashi Murakami's ongoing collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Tokyo-based creative agency SET dispensed with the standard black and white pattern and designed a stylized QR code inspired by the artist's work for the fashion brand. Big in Japan, quick response codes are graphics used to hyperlink physical objects to Web content or multimedia and are often found on posters, billboards and magazines.

The Murakami QR code drives traffic to the Louis Vuitton mobile website and, for SET, demonstrates the possibilities of designer QR codes. SET handles events, video production, ambient marketing, mobile marketing and guerrilla campaigns for clients like Red Bull, Adidas and Heineken. Below, Greg McMaster, creative planner at the agency, talks about the project and the potential for QR codes beyond Japan. How did the Louis Vuitton Murakami project come about? The World Biggest QR Code By Audi Japan Employees.

I found this on YouTube, Audi Japan and its sales subsidiary Audi Japan Sales‘s making movie of a huge QR code in gymnasium. According to Nikkan Jidousha Shimbun [J], this was made in July 2009. I could read the QR code on the movie with my Android phone with Barcode Scanner app. The code points , which does not respond. It is too early to finish your campaign site. There have been many huge QR code ads are all around Japan for 4-5 years. Here is a 9 meter squares QR code appeared [J] on the building wall in Tachikawa, Tokyo in November 2009. You may see another one in Ginza, the high street in Tokyo (photo by malpocha). At Shibuya 109 shopping building’s wall (photo by Barks), Another one in Shibuya (by obanajun), In Akihabara, of course.

Northwest Airline put their bug QR code ad on Shinjyuku building in 2005 (photo by Nikkei Media Lab). Shinbashi building shows mobile online loan ad. In Fukuoka, Kyushu, You may check more QR code samples in usage on Asiajin.