There are some really interesting new design ideas about barcodes. Those completely boring and dull barcodes are being completely redone. A Japanese company named D-barcode has come up with many interesting twists to the old barcode.

Just to help you out if you do not know any Japanese, when you go to their site just click the top left image of a guy throwing away paper wads. This leads you to a screen with wads of paper which when clicked will show you some of their work.

It is an amazingly creative idea on a very creative site, although not very intuitive navigation. Ideas like these really inspire artists and designers to take their creativity to a whole new avenue.