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Part of a 3D art project, QR code has found itself on clothing.
The participants of the project state their reasons as:
Can they be functional and direct people to places on the internet?
How can QR codes be created in textile form? How can designers, crafters, makers, tinkerers, artists, coders and interested dabblers use textile QR codes to send viewers to interesting places?
How can an internationally and digitally collaborative project share ways of working and increase opportunities for exposure and networking?
Other examples include cushion covers, scarves, book covers and stitch patterns.
In the City of Manor, Texas, QR codes are used to display information on historical monuments.
The aim behind using quick response codes in this manner was to 'engage citizens, businesses and tourists by using mobile technology on a very limited information technology budget'.
City staff have educated local businesses on how QR-codes can be utilized in their marketing strategies, and the City of Manor planned to extend their wireless facilities to reduce problems for tourists who do not wish to pay to download content on their mobile devices.
You can read the report here (.pdf).
(Source: 2D Code)
In a German agricultural field, a giant QR code was cut into the loam to mark it out on Google Earth.
According to the project creators:
“A Semacode measuring 160 x 160 meters was mown into a wheat field near the town of Ilmenau in the Land Thuringia. The code consists of 18 x 18 bright and dark squares producing decoded the phrase “Hello, world!”. The project was realized in May 2006 and photographs were taken of it during a picture flight in the following month."