Friday, February 10, 2012

Barcoding Artwork?!?!?!

Well, I"m just flabbergasted!  The Wall Street Journal posted an article that discussed how companies are starting to gussy up barcodes!  When I've worked in packaging, I'd always thought of them as a necessary space-wasting technology. Now, as I understand it, some companies are making the barcodes into doodles.  One was a school bus, one was a patch of flowers.  One was a city skyline!

If you're able to incorporate a barcode like that successfully enough into your product, you could get it into the logo!  For example, if you have a logo of a Scottish man in a kilt, you could design the kilt pattern so it is actually a 2D barcode!  Or you could have a snowy background with a barcode.  Or a smiling face, with barcode teeth. And all of them could reinforce your brand.

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