Japanese Barcodes

In today’s world barcodes have become universal, present in every product packaging used today. Bacodes are expanding being used to encode music, images, URLs, and emails. Barcodes encode data by using different widths and spacing of parallel lines. Japanese group Design Barcode has been creating custom barcodes since 2005. Asking themselves “Why has the barcode never changed?”, the group began innovating a process of integrating design elements into the barcode. Some of the designs the group came up with are below.