Long Trace
Jade UI
E-Ware
Candle System
QR Instrument
About
This series reimagines traditional measuring tools through the visual language of digital encoding. Rulers, triangular scales, and other instruments are preserved in their familiar industrial forms, yet their measurement marks are replaced by dense QR codes. In place of linear ticks and numerical units, each increment becomes a machine-readable fragment of information.
Historically, measurement tools have served to quantify space, distance, and proportion, establishing the rational systems that structure modern knowledge. In contrast, QR codes represent a different form of measurement—one based on data, encoding, and digital translation. By embedding QR patterns where scales once existed, these objects question how contemporary technology redefines the act of measuring the world.
The tools appear functional yet resist immediate interpretation: their units cannot be read by the human eye alone. Instead, they suggest a shift from human-centered measurement toward a machine-readable reality, where meaning is increasingly encoded, scanned, and interpreted through technological systems.
Stainless steel
20.1 × 35.0 × 0.1 cm
Stainless steel
3.8 × 35.0 × 0.1 cm