QR Flow

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Every page, one word and one scan away.

Each card pairs a page with a word in kanji and the code that opens it. Flip through a shelf, stop on a card and scan it with your phone.

Plate 01 — QR Code
1994

Masahiro Hara designed it at Denso Wave to track car parts on Toyota’s lines. The three corner squares, borrowed from the stones of a Go board, let a scanner find it from any angle.

Plate 02 — Cover Flow
2006

Sketched by the artist Andrew Coulter Enright and bought by Apple, it arrived in iTunes 7: a music library you flipped through like a crate of records.

Plate 03 — QR Flow
2026

The two meet here. A shelf of covers to flip through, and on every cover a code that opens its page.

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