Leave it to the Japanese to take something as mundane as the barcode and make an artform out of it.
Update: Check out this post filled with awesome barcodes that safoocat sent me via Flickr.
This reminded me of those super cool Japanese manhole covers from a while back:

These are great examples of how anything (even something as municipally boring as a manhole) can be made into something interesting with a little attention to design. Don’t be lazy.
Read more about the barcodes here and the manholes here.


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