You may not normally associate the lowly barcode as an infographic as you watch it getting tossed in front of a product scanner at the supermarket, but believe it or not, they are. After all, an infographic is defined as the graphical representation of information or data, and a barcode does exactly that by translating a number into a visual form that machines can read. Anyways, never mind the technical definition. What I wanted to share in this post was Vanity Barcodes, which takes standard barcodes and re-designs them into fun and playful graphics that still meet industry standard for machine scanning. Particularly what I love about their designs is the use of the barcode as a texture, and in some cases, as a method of shading. 
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