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Designer QR Codes: 5 Tips to Customize Your QR Code to Promote Your Brand
Designer QR Codes are a hot, new design trend and with good reason since they improve engagement for your ad, marketing collateral or website with their creative color, design and concept. To be sure, it’s a definite improvement over the often cold black and white, slightly geeky 2D barcode where it might serve its purpose for inventory but is not as attractive or engaging in marketing or print collateral.
Popularized in Japan, where it was created by Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave in 1994 for inventory purposes, the QR ( Quick Response) code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes.
Free Online QR Code Generator for Print Media Designs
There are many free QR Code generators online, offered by a variety of 2D barcode software vendors, but few offer functionality that enables a graphic designer to generate a QR code and make it readily available to be used on Photoshop or other graphic editing programs. This is important when designing or incorporating QR codes for print collateral or other small business marketing material
Multi-use QR Code Generator Website
Kerem Erkan’s online generator form does and it offers a whole slew of options.
With this handy online tool, you can generate a QR Code for all the following functions:
Animator Uses QR Codes in Cartoon to Promote His Animations
I am always amazed at the creative uses that are becoming available with interactive media tools. This animator has combined an animation and included QR codes (of his other popular animations of course, I tested the codes with my mobile phone barcode scanner app) to promote his brand on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.