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I've seen Brutalist design being mentioned a few times here and it always shows this website gallery, I am no specialist, so I wonder, is this what brutalist de
by mrisoli 9y ago
I've seen Brutalist design being mentioned a few times here and it always shows this website gallery, I am no specialist, so I wonder, is this what brutalist design really is?
Quick Google search explains that brutalist architecture is about creating modular elements representing specific functionality often sacrificing aesthetics.
A lot of the sites on that gallery are ugly just for being ugly, they have no functionality and use different types of animations or constructs to just make something unconventional from common website aesthetics, I get why, but it feels like the word brutalist was borrowed here and is applied in a very different way.
- tzahola 9y agoThis is not brutalism. It’s more like dada.
- brador 9y agoBrutalism is features before design. A cement tower block is an example in architecture. http://skimfeed.com http://skimfeed.com is an example of a website that follows brutalist ideals. Early craigslist and early search engines are good examples too.
- mrisoli 9y agoI agree and this is what I consider to be brutalist web design, but that site(the top search result for 'brutalist websites', 'brutalist design', 'brutalist web' and so on) has a bunch of weird designs(such as http://www.xtragear.services/ http://www.xtragear.services/ ), which is the source of my confusion.