Design
In Berlin, Making Street Art That Sings
A street artist’s boombox posters turn cell phones into cassette tapes
A lot has changed since 1989, when the cops busted graffiti artist Sweza for scrawling tags and drawings on Berlin's buildings. Almost 25 years later, he’s a conceptual street artist with a family, a day job and slicker technology to play around with, too.
Sweza has been experimenting with QR codes – the square barcodes smartphones can read to automatically open extra content like coupons, websites, audio tracks or video content.