Web Brutalism: Ugly Web Design Trend

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GOOGLE MATERIAL DESIGN

APPLE IOS DESIGN

MICROSOFT FLUENT DESIGN

there was something

weird happened

Pascal Deville

Creative Director of Freundliche Grüsse The designers apparently work hard

and enthusiastically to abandon a sense of popular aesthetics, creating something that is originally ugly

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.

Katrine Mehl Building Kitkat Pecson

/ˈbruːt(ə)lɪz(ə)m/Brutalism

Why do they call it brutalism?

béton brut + al -ism

raw concrete

Brutalis

m is a p

ost-war

architec

tural st

yle that

descende

d from h

igh mode

rnism

and was

most pop

ular dur

ing

the 1950

s to the

mid-70s

.

Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts USA,1968

High Modernism: the

architectural trend that started

in the early 20th century with

minimalism, Bauhaus, van Der

Rohe, on down to Le Corbusier.

sleek lines

little embellishment

grandiose structur

e

Philippine International Convention Center, 1976

Brutalism took the idea of unity of form and sleek futurism even further.

——— Brutalism went one step further by minimizing or even outright eliminating them.

Centro de Exposições, Salvador, Bahía, Brazil, 1974

Le Corbusier

Corbusier called his designsMACHINES FOR LIVING INActually not necessarily for living in.

usually formed with repeated modular elements

contrasting dramatically

ugly& rough

structural components should be made visible

Orange County Offices and Court House, Goshen, NY, US, 1967

Concrete is used for its raw

Le Corbusier, Cité radieuse de Marseille France 1952

Brutalism was anti-bourgeois movement and represented a rejection of bourgeois comforts and pretense.

The movement emphasized the valuation of existing materials

Web brutalism is reaction by a younger generation to the lightness, optimism, and frivolity of today’s Web design.

Main goal is shakes designers out of our comfort zones.

The Internet is becoming an increasingly homogenised space. Bland and inoffensive.

The Internet is Coldplay.

UXdesign is not a design style

DESIGNshould be unashamed

CREATIVITYmeans achieving something new which did not previously exist.

usually formed with repeated modular elements

contrasting dramatically

ugly& rough

structural components should be made visible

Orange County Offices and Court House, Goshen, NY, US, 1967

Concrete is used for its raw

Ultra basic design elements

Hand coded HTML without any library

90’s motifs and animated gif image usage

Intentionally selected random layouts

radical aesthetic

park UX

keep basic and rough

redefinition of aesthetic

is the 90s coming back

The Corruption Converter from Brazil

Spectral interactive specimen from France

Democratising Tomorrow's AI from Denmark

www.cosstores.com

cosstores.com

moma.org

Drudge Report

Kanye West

bloomberg.com

bloomberg.com

Boring one brutalist version

Boring one brutalist version

Boring one brutalist version

Boring one brutalist version

WHATAREYOUDOINGNOW

thank you

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