Fun with barcodes

Barcodes have been an irritation to cover designers ever since their introduction to magazines in the eighties. But the re-launched UK Esquire has been having fun with theirs. Here are the first three, relating to Michelle Pfeiffer, James McAvoy and footballer Kaka. (If you want to know more about barcodes there’s more information then you’ll ever need on Wikipedia).

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1. The latest issue of Wallpaper has been having loads of fun with barcodes too as part of their retail special…
   http://wallpaper.live.ipcignite.com/images/98_wallpaper_limited_cover.gif

   Comment by Michael (Boicozine) — October 16, 2007 #

2. I hadn’t seen that; a special subscription-only cover, I think. The same issue also has a page of barcode fun inside the issue. Will post a picture later.

   Comment by jeremy — October 17, 2007 #

3. Not quite as playful/illustrative but making good use of the barcode within the cover concept, Timeouts summer nights cover seems like a nice solution. Was published a while ago now.

   http://nmca.boico.net/nmca_timeout.htm

   Comment by Lee — October 17, 2007 #

4. I don’t know if they hired this company or not, but there’s some rather fun ones here. Love the pizza.

   http://www.barcoderevolution.com/gallery/index.php?c=all

   Comment by Andrew — October 19, 2007 #

5. I designed the top two barcodes whilst on an internship at Esquire. If you like what you see drop me an email at williamjamesholmes@hotmail.com

   Comment by Will Holmes — November 19, 2007 #

6. [...] it looks like they went hardback for their September issue. Even the barcode is nicely [...]

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