Apr 23, 2009

Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami bring design to QR codes

When it comes to QR codes what you see is what you get because they all look the same and I have never seen any variation in them until today. Louis Vuitton and my favorite modern artist Takashi Murakami have created the first QR code that is actually designed in the brand's visual language and characters that Murkami created. The coolest thing is that even with all the design the code actually works and takes you to the Louis Vuitton online Japanese store. I this has to be take a long time to create but this addition of branding to the QR codes could turn them into something really cool that could be used as a design element in a lot of different places.

Labels: Digital culture, Information design, iPhone

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posted by Stephen Gates at 2:41 PM

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I'm Stephen Gates and I’ve been in the advertising business almost my whole life.  I am a designer and second generation creative director and an hour from now I will probably be locked away in my studio slowly going blind working on a new design or this blog.  That has to be love or insanity – since it is advertising it is probably a bit of both.

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