Is your business ready for barcodes? Find out how they help, if you could benefit from them, how much they cost, and what it takes to get started.
Barcodes are an ugly, but unavoidable, fact of packaging design. That’s what most people will tell you, anyway. But does it have to be like that?
Design Barcode doesn’t think so. For the past ten years, the Japanese design group has been turning barcodes into brand messaging elements. Check out some awesome examples of their work below!
Our only question about all of this: why isn’t everyone else doing it?
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A pan-industry scheme is testing invisible barcodes on plastic packaging to boost recycling rates.
Learn more about barcodes and how barcode labels can improve your efficiency, provide better inventory counts, and speed up checkout for your small business.
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Read an excerpt from the course, Consumer Packaging Design Strategy, to generate package design ideas that effectively resonate with your target audience.