Posts Tagged ‘Digital Media’

Posted by
Julian Gratton
February 20th, 2010

How Social Media is bringing fashion to the masses at London Fashion Week

by Julian Gratton

Last year, like many brands and organisations, London Fashion Week flirted with Social Media by having event details, links to stories and comments posted on Twitter and Facebook… so far so very 2009!

This year, though, sees London Fashion Week take a great leap forward by embracing even more Social Media technologies and making London Fashion Week open to the masses rather than the privileged few… and they’ve done it in some predictable and also some surprising ways.

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Posted by
Julian Gratton
September 8th, 2009

Designer QR Codes

by Julian Gratton

set-murakami-vuitton-qr-codes-1-540x500QR Codes. Great little invention… bloody boring to look at though. Well not any more thanks to the Tokyo based agency SET who have found a way to make these two dimensional barcodes visually more interesting.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with QR Codes. A QR Code (The QR standing for Quick Response) is a Japanese invention that was initially used for tracking vehicle parts in vehicle manufacturing. They are common in japan and with the rise in popularity in smart phones on these shores… we’re beginning to see a lot of them in adverts and magazines.

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