Barcode & QR
バーコードとQRコード / 1974 / 1994– / Style / Symbol Systems
Machine-readable graphics printed as stripes and square grids. DENSO WAVE's QR solves orientation with three corner finder patterns — a pattern to be read, inspired by Go boards and halftone screens, now part of the everyday landscape.
Stripes coding by width / Three corner finder patterns / Error-correction redundancy / Pattern made for machines
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Woodland's circular barcode / Masahiro Hara's QR development / designer QR codes, for better or worse