Artists have immediately recognised the exciting possibilities for this creative innovation.
They come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR is short for Quick Response and can be simply and quickly read by a mobile phone device. You may soon see QR Codes in magazine adverts, on a billboard, a web page or even on someone’s t-shirt. Once you have read the code with your phone, it may give you details about that business (allowing users to search for nearby locations), or details about the person wearing the t-shirt, show you a URL which you can click to see a trailer for a movie, or it may give you a coupon which you can use in a local store.
The reason why they are more useful than a standard barcode is that they can store (and digitally present) much more data, including url links, geo coordinates, and text. The other key feature of QR Codes is that instead of requiring a chunky hand-held scanner to scan them, many modern cell phones can scan them.
If you are an artists who would actively like to exploit this technological development then you can easily generate a QR code using one of a number of Code Generator sites on the Web.
