I have been reading about QR Codes for past few years but didn’t really get into the idea behind it till i found this a custom QR Code Designed by Takashi Murakami , Produced by SetJapan for Louis Vuitton. It was something different not a normal QR Code with black and white boxes but was a cute full colored QR Code Design with a tiny cartoon character in the middle it really opened my eyes and i thought i should give it a go and do more research on QR Codes and so i did.

So for those who don’t know what are QR Codes well these are two dimensional barcodes or matrix code which were created by a Japanese Corporation Denso-Wave in 1994 and since then they are being used in Japan and are very much popular, They can easily be read by almost all of Japanese mobiles using their built-in camera. The “QR” stands for Quick Response.

QR Code Related Japanese Commercial

QR Codes can be used for advertising purposes you can Generate a QR Code for your website or make a QR Code out of your contact details and then add that QR Code in your advertising or may be print it out on your T-Shirt or may be even use as a patch on your Jacket ? and best of all its “cool”

Custom Designed QR Codes

So these past few days i have been trying to see if i can customize a generated QR Code design and so far its going pretty good here is the current result i have but its not the final result i am still working on it !

QR Code on iPhone

There are some tools like KayWa Reader which are well known and available for Nokia Series 60 and other devices but there are no well known QR Code Reading apps for the iPhone so i went on hunting for the best iPhone App to read QR Codes and i found it , Its called OptiScan its absolutely the best QR Code scanner for the iPhone its faster than any other readers and works great with a lot of extra built in functions.

Some QR Code Related Cool Tools :

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