When I was 10-11 years old, I was isolated and timid so expressing myself creatively was often hard and I usually just resorted to video games to p...
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I think @ben 's website would feel right at home here 😉
benhalpern.com/
My thought process: "What's brutalist web design? ... Oh so like Ben's website"
Why is this so beautiful?
Beyond epic.
I've seen #BrutalistWebdesign quite frequently this year and I think, they mostly get it wrong.
David Copeland, the author of the guidelines you linked to, actually explains what brutalism is about and tries to adapt its philosophy onto a website. The result is a plain, white, easy to use document, and it works really well. The core statement is that unstyled documents are mostly fine as they are. Each CSS property that's applied to the document needs a very good reason to be there.
However most websites featured on brutalistwebsites.com go the other way and apply retro designs and design antipatterns just for the sake of being edgy. The user is not in focus anymore, the designer is. It's the exact opposite of brutalism.
While I love seeing weird, retro, anti-design websites and exploring their sometimes unexpected behaviour, brutalism is the wrong headline.
(I know, I must be fun at partys)
I love your fair take on it :). You are welcome to every single one of my parties. (don't forget the pizza)
I hadn’t realized this was a thing! I went on a tirade a little while ago and built “the simplest website that could possibly work”. Heavy focus on the content and blazing fast page loads (because it’s mostly just HTML and a few bytes of uncompressed CSS). One of my big rules is that it has to render in the Lynx browser. If my site doesn’t work in the terminal, a screen reader won’t fair well either, so it’s broken. +100
Sounds a lot like this random guy I found on twitter.
Roman Zolotarev
This is purely psychological. You're not experiencing something objectively good - you are experiencing a relief.
A lot of sites nowadays are milktoast soggy wonderbread of blandness. They just feel awful to look at when every single site is batshing boring.
So naturally you're enjoying a relief when you see something interesting to look at.
Wow, some of the websites on the list are amazing.
Thanks, I didn't know about this "current"
Totally think the same as you, that brutalism design is very addictive to look at, because give us a break from the same type of design over and over again, but if we use to much of brutalism design it can end up as the norm an not being appealing again, more on this subject in this website to complement this vision imaginarycloud.com/blog/why-we-nee...
I am not by any means a web designer but I read about Brutalist Web Design a while ago and then immediately changed the CSS on my website to give it a go
It seems quite divisive, some people love the design of my website... and others don't :(
Websites used to have much more personality. I love coming across some old forum. Very nostalgic indeed.
I did a coding challenge for an app where they also wanted a 'design'. I reckoned that I'm not a designer nor am I applying for a design position so I might as well go hard brutalist.
Of course the team evaluating it docked me points for it not being a 'professional' looking design.
They also critiqued my architecture with references to webpages which on closer reading said that my approach is perfectly fine until you're faced with larger scale issues. (I was doing the challenge in a language I'm hot fluent in and told them that I would be proficient in a couple of weeks.)
Lessons:
Thank you for sharing this. I'm loving going through all the websites on the list!
The biggest problem I have with the brutalist sites I've tried to look at so far (3) is simply that they are ridiculously heavy on bandwidth (waited about a minute for each to load, consuming 7-10 mbps for the whole time), crazy with cpu (Firefox warned of unresponsive sites) and mad with memory (never seen my phone go over the 2.5 gig Mark before).
I'm all for expression and doing your own thing, but the point of online content is for consumption by visitors. If your visitors can't load the site, that's a giant fail.
Interesting post, so cool! Here is another cool post about brutalism and its principles of implementation in web design, I recommend it for beginners gapsystudio.com/blog/brutalism-web....
This is my favorite one → lingscars.com/
Wow some of the sites on that list are really great. The creativity goes trough the roof. Amazing stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for mentioning us!
Brutalism is a thing of 2017/2018. Some brands are now switching away from it.
I knew it was just a matter of time for this to come back!