How To Brutalize The Web
Examining the characteristics of Web Brutalism, why it can be effective, and what it takes to design a Brutalist website.
Probably the best description of Web Brutalism I’ve read.
Full stack web developer, interested in all the things, but especially the web, code, design, Linux, OS X, PHP, WordPress, JavaScript & robots.
Examining the characteristics of Web Brutalism, why it can be effective, and what it takes to design a Brutalist website.
Probably the best description of Web Brutalism I’ve read.
Look at Hacker News. Pinboard. The Drudge Report. Adult Swim. Bloomberg Businessweek features. All of these sites — some years old, some built recently — and hundreds more like them, eschew the templated, user-friendly interfaces that have long been the industry’s best practice. Instead they’re built on imperfect, hand-coded HTML and take their design cues from ’90s graphics.
I’m not sure if I should take umbrage at the “imperfect, hand-coded HTML” comment. I’m sure the author didn’t mean to imply that all hand-coded HTML is imperfect, I mean there is a strategically placed comma in there, but I would imagine it would be easy to read it as that.
Anyhow, I love the brutalist movement/trend and I’d love to see more of it. In many ways, the web has become far too boring, with frameworks like Bootstrap contributing to what feels like a homogenised web. Brutalist websites offer a welcome break from that.