The “Barcode” is a united flag for Europe developed as part of the visual language of Brussels, official EU capital since 2001. Rem Koolhaas of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) came up with it by combining all the flags of EU members. It solved the problem of having to change the flag when new members were added to the union as the barcode can grow indefinitely to include their colours.
When OMA released their pop-mag-book Content they put some products on eBay so I snagged a flag-striped passport holder. When I was in Turkey the passport control officer asked me what it was and passed it round to show his colleagues when I explained and told him Turkey’s colours would be added to it once they join the EU.
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- Macheist is an online scavenger hunt from the My Dream App crew featuring weekly challenges on a trail to free mac apps. This weeks heist (the second one so far) was difficult, but well worth the reward. Cha-Ching said the thief when he cracked open the vault. - #
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