i dont know how many people are aware of brutalist architecture, and this confused me at first too.

the popularized executions of this style mentioned in this thread seem so fundamentally at odds with what I know of its basis in architecture.

Ditto. Brutalist architecture is about being raw and being concrete. It is not about intentionally ugly designs, using neon gradients, or hard to use interfaces. It’s almost the opposite of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

Couldn't agree more.

Once people start posting threads like this one, it's too late. It's a trend and the architectural basis will fade out...

your comments make me realize, maybe in digital design, brutalism is using the basic elements of the web, unstyled? Like the raw concrete of the archtecture, the raw DOM element is that to the web.

OMG, it all starts to make sense to me now (but still not really, lol)

Dude I really love your site, man. I don't think yours qualifies as Brutalist. It just doesn't have the crappy edge that Brutalist Websites curates... it is clean and minimal but not like The Outline for instance:

https://theoutline.com/

Or Bloomberg's 2016 Design feature is web brutalism at its finest:

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-design/

Again I'm not sure how http://slava.kim/ qualifies as brutalist. It is clean and minimal.

Not even close to Brutalism. This is just 90s graphic design

This clash of electric colours, textures, shapes and overlays is much closer to something like Pop Art. Look! We've seen this clashing before, way back in the 70s and 80s: Wolfgang Weingart (New Wave, Swiss Punk style)

And any website or app that is using mostly bare typography, limited colour palette, is not Brutalist, it is Modernist/Swiss, which sought to use the elements of graphic design in a pure, (as much as possible) unadorned fashion with a strict adherence to a grid, so the message could be as clear as possible.

This is Brutalism: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ Meaning, it uses the raw materials of the medium it is created in, in this case basic, unstyled HTML elements.

Also see April Greiman, who was made famous in the 70s and 80s and was one of the pioneers of digital art. See the similarities to that CollectUI (and other) collections. I doubt anyone back then would have called that Brutalist. It's more like "Pop Electric Collage".

tribe was new, thx!

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Did not think about that :-D

LOL I posted above but after you already posted. Good call.

I get you it is a term from architecture, but it is etablished in the digital design sphere so. Want some catchy in the title ;-)