Some day you’ll be able to find a QR code on just about everything. But Craig Villamor and Brad Frost don’t see much of a point.
The mobile design experts—Villamor designs at Salesforce, Frost is a strategist for R/GA—are behind wtfqrcodes.com, a Tumblr dedicated to celebrating the ridiculous QR Codes, those those little, square Rorschach test-looking things that, if you take a picture of it, will lead you directly to a website—if you have a smartphone, a niche app necessary to interpret the Codes, and a proper Internet connection.
Launched February 8, wtfqrcodes went live with a stock of QR fails Villamor and Frost had photographed on their own before opening the page to guest submissions. Through those contributions, the two noted in an article published in the Guardian this morning, they’ve been able to post what they consider the page’s best material.
The site has seen a stready increase in popularity of late, with certain posts, like this recent one showing a field of cows adorned in QR cCodes, racking up as many as 56 notes.
“It’s obvious that most companies just don’t understand the technology,” the two concluded in their Guardian writeup. That’s a recipe for some very funny posts.”
We compiled the funniest wtfqrcodes submissions in the Storify below.
