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+ Design in the Wild: Beautiful Barcodes

04.05.08 | Permalink |

Beautiful Barcodes

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:

manhole_8.jpg

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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