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Work · July 9, 2018

Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design

Raw content true to its construction

Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design launched on July 9, 2018 with 6 votes, #1,113 of 2,673 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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"Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design" is a great guide for bringing back the content to the web - quick loading pages that are fun to read, easy to consume and intuitive to use.

Guidelines for web design that adhere to the tenets and ethos of Brutalism

The term brutalism is often associated with Brutalist Architecture , however it can apply to other forms of construction, such as web design. This website explains how. The term brutalism is derived from the French béton brut , meaning “raw concrete”. Although most brutalist buildings are made from concrete, we're more interested in the term raw . Concrete brutalist buildings often reflect back the forms used to make them, and their overall design tends to adhere to the concept of truth to materials . A website's materials aren't HTML tags, CSS, or JavaScript code. Rather, they are its content and the context in which it's consumed. A website is for a visitor, using a browser, running on a…from brutalist-web.design

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