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Brutalist Web Design isn’t that Brutal

thoughtbot
August 18, 2016

Brutalist Web Design isn’t that Brutal

Or is it?

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August 18, 2016
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  1. Brutalist Websites – In its ruggedness and lack of concern

    to look comfortable or easy, Brutalism can be seen as a reaction by a younger generation to the lightness, optimism, and frivolity of today's webdesign.
  2. Brutalism (Wikipedia) – In its ruggedness and lack of concern

    to look comfortable or easy, Brutalism can be seen as a reaction by a younger generation to the lightness, optimism, and frivolity of some 1930s and 1940s architecture.
  3. More recently, "brutalism" has become used in popular discourse to

    refer to buildings of the late twentieth century that are large or unpopular – as a synonym for "brutal.”
  4. Dada represented the opposite of everything which art stood for.

    Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics.
  5. Brutalist web design is a part of web vernacular. It

    has been appropriated by the web design community to mean something totally different.
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    ! That’s all folks. !