Some of you may have been wondering what the strange black and white grid was on our latest sticker - well, it’s a QR code!

Taken from wikipedia
A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional code.

So what does that mean? - it means you can hide words, sentences and even direct URL links.

So how can you read the codes? This is the best bit, anyone can download a small barcode reader onto their camera phone - then you simply scan the barcode and see what’s hidden!

Head over to KAYWA for their free reader.

Send us over an email to get your batch of new free QR code stickers.

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After what seems like an age of waiting, the day has finally come!

Our good friends over at www.cromatics.co.uk have done us proud once more.

10,000 new bits of sticky duck flavored paper to be distributed around the globe.

We have the amazing repeater from our competition winner Henry:

We have a super exciting QR duck (more to follow on this one) :

and we have 9000 of these little fellas just to tide you over!:

If you want to get hold of some stickers drop a quick email to duck@freerangeduck.com and we shall get them out to you ASAP.

(all current requests have been posted so keep your eyes peeled for the postman!)

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We are waiting for a bumper delivery of stickers, including competition winner, Henry Barnes’ repeating sticker & a surprise or two!
If you have requested stickers then please hold tight, you’d rather wait a bit and get a few more designs eh?

T-shirts
A while back we printed up some t-shirts, we thought they had all gone, but just found some hidden away!
We have 3 men’s medium - 2 Khaki, 1 Yellow - If you are interested they are £15 each + postage - drop us an email!

(Just to reiterate, we will never make money from the duck, but printing stickers and sending them round the globe costs money, not all of which can be covered by the pockets of the idiots in charge)

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Things like this make us happy!

Check out Leah Thomas’ amazing “Quack & Forth” game:
Here

She says: Hi! I have a fun Flash game for you that I made using your inspirational
duckies. What started as a simple project for a Flash class seemed to take
a life of its own once I decided to use the ducks. I’m sure this game could
be taken further, but as I said, this was a final project so I had limited
time! I hope you enjoy it

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We have had so many fantastic entries for our first design competition, many thanks to all those who joined in! They can all be found in the gallery.

The winning design is one which we felt captured the spirit of the duck project best.

Congratulations go to our winner: Henry Barnes with his repeating duck tile:

Henry Says:
My idea was to make something that repeated so that if you saw one on the street, you could add to it, and so could others! You could make different coloured ones or leave a space for their initials so you could see who was adding them!

Henry’s design will be printed onto 3000 stickers in the coming weeks.

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Just a note - We are all about making people smile with an image, so please have some consideration to where you stick your ducks, sticking them over important information will only anger people!

We have some big plans heading your way soon, including new stickers & some very special treats!

Big thanks to all the people contributing, we will try and get everything online in due course - and people waiting for stickers please be patient, we are getting through the backlog as quick as we can!

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We have had some cracking submissions in this week.

- check the gallery for all the new designs & trips to The Netherlands

Do keep the submissions coming in, all that are received before May 10th will be in the running for the next sticker.

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We really enjoyed receiving this!

I have walked past this duck every day for the past 6 months, each time making me smile. Yesterday I noticed that someone had modified him and freed his wings! Hope the pictures do it some justice!

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Head on over to Vecteezy for the duck pack.

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We at duck HQ are throwing the power over to you for the next sticker.

Design us a sticker:
85 * 120mm
Full Colour
Using the duck in some way

This is your chance to have your artwork printed onto 3000 stickers and sent round the world! There is no design restrictions, you can dress the duck up, use him in some artwork or do something that no-one has yet thought of.
It’s all good with us. Go wild!

Head over to the resources page for the vector files and the gallery for some inspiration

Closing date is the 10th of May and all entries should be submitted to: duck@freerangeduck.com

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