European Union Barcode
Reading up on Rem Koolhaas a little today after Tak mentioned something about him, I stumbled on ‘the barcode’:
Don’t know why I hadn’t seen this before, and I don’t yet know how I feel about the rest of Koolhaas’s work, but I find this thing stunning. As a design this is almost along the lines of the MIT Press logo in its engineering, but this is in full, perfectly politicized technicolor. It is even adaptable to allow addition of other flags as more countries join.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:53 am
i’m just doing a little visualisation project including the barcode-flag. on my research for it i found the following ‘mod’ which i think is as genius as the original:
http://www.eu2006.at/includes/images/Logos/Logo_Sound.JPG