this isn't brutalist, this is pretentious. the materials don't show through. the websites are ridiculously pretentious. roughness & exposed structures are lik

this isn't brutalist, this is pretentious. the materials don't show through. the websites are ridiculously pretentious. roughness & exposed structures are likely to be problems in function. visible thought processes - logorrhea is the other term for that. or brainstorming. Neither should be put up for public view. the websites the article castigates are identical in style, but not bad, per se. they exemplify a certain aesthetic, and a cookie cutter way of design that is driven by, I think, the north European minimalism trends of the 1960s via Rams and Ives at Apple. if you want to go for a bad influence that is useful, I suggest pondering LaTeX. Textfiles. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ . Hacker News. Possibly even the NYT or the WaPo. design that is aimed at information transmission: not ads, not branding, not razz ma tazz to tickle the eye and neglect knowledge & understanding. Alexander's concepts on architecture have much to commend themselves when considered for information transmission as well.