[bredren]

I’ve seen these and they are so novel! The problem is they don’t look like QR codes.

A regular QR code, regardless of the fact they are an eyesore, people know what to do when they see one on a menu.

Artistic ones don’t really look like QR. Def don’t want to have to add an arrow and “scan this!”

I suspect this will come on more handy incorporating QR into larger murals that people might photograph anyway.

iOS camera “sees” QR codes w a url preview. This surprise embedded mega might make for an interesting beat in the march to ubiquitous AR.

[aledalgrande]

It would be a cool idea for leaving easter eggs embedded in designs though

[yonatan8070]

Maybe it's because I've read a bit about how they work and in general have seen a lot of them, but I can recognize these are QR codes even if they weren't labeled as such

[maratc]

That's great, but how about your grandma? Could she recognize that's a QR code?

[yonatan8070]

I'm not sure she knows what a normal QR code is...

[maratc]

My point is: this is cool and all, but it makes the functional part of QR codes harder, not easier. While something can be functional and beautiful at the same time, and while QR codes are not beautiful by any means, this adds beauty but at the same time removes the functional part — ease of identifying QR code as such.