{"id":5232,"date":"2010-06-20T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2010-06-20T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T02:50:00","slug":"less-boring-barcodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/less-boring-barcodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Less boring&#8230; barcodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5233\" title=\"barcodes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/barcodes.jpg\" alt=\"barcodes\" width=\"437\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First vanity license plates; now vanity barcodes. In the U.S., <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanitybarcodes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Barcodes<\/a><\/em> has turned the ubiquitous and boring UPC codes into decorative elements. They have a number of barcode designs in stock or will customize one to your preference.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of disguising this inventory management device into something else is believed to have originated in Japan with <em>Design Barcode<\/em> in 2004. The agency made the barcodes an integral part of the packaging design, tying it into the brand or cleverly building the stripes and digits into a line drawn picture. A caution: every manipulated barcode has to be thoroughly tested to make sure it gives accurate readings when passed through a retail scanner.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>We\u2019re working on a product\/package design right now that I think we\u2019ll try to incorporate one of these \u201cmore engaging\u201d barcodes on\u2026<\/em> <em>(thanks to Delphine Hirasuna of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atissuejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">@issue<\/a> for the image and links).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada First vanity license plates; now vanity barcodes. In the U.S., Vanity Barcodes has turned the ubiquitous and boring UPC codes into decorative elements. They have a number of barcode designs in stock or will customize one to your preference. The idea of disguising this inventory management device into something else is believed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}