BRUTALIST WEB DESIGNS - The UGLIEST Design Trend of 2020 | TemplateMonster

Brutalist web design catches your eye at first sight! As technology advances and designers get more creative freedom, the websites become more and more... UGLY. This video is a short documentary about the ugliest design trend of 2020 - BRUTALISM!

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⚡What Is BRUTALISM?

If you've ever wondered why this website with no structure, illegible copy and clunky animations is even online and on top of that is getting awards and honorable mentions, then YES, this has a name: BRUTALISM. This style is far from being new, but why are we seeing more and more of these websites year after year? This web design trend is going to be huge in 2020, such websites will get more and more design awards, and we'll keep wondering what everyone likes about them.😁

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[Skylinetaenzer]

However, brutalism is also about form follows function. So just “do whatever you want” is not the right advice here.

[johnnybecrafting]

love your phrase "a cozy atmosphere of chaos"- I like the ethos of brutalism- which is to defy convention. It's hard to believe that the varieties in brutalist designs in web platforms were inspired from bland uninspiring brutalist architecture.

[revolvard]

brutalism is about simplicity and minimalism so should be the web design

[grimmsnow]

I don't get why we shit on other people who enjoy and appreciate Brutalist designs. As a learning creative, I get easily tired of working on structured, formal works. Having that freedom of breaking the rules and conventions in design is much needed to spur creative inspiration again.

[alexj-t]

My grunge teenager inside loves this trend and my current self can see the value in this trend for the future. I also think the fact that many designers actively hate this trend says that it will probably be around or resurface again since "fuck your status quo" types of art thrives on criticism and only goes away when it is over saturated. I have ADHD and even if I love minimalist designs they just do not catch my attention that well and I bet I would survive reading a textbook in school if it was created in this way (but thats just me.) Maybe its not a good trend for practical use in graphic design but I still love to look at it and it has left an impression on me and I will be studying it while going forward with my design degree

[sakuragi]

Aww yes ! I’ve been wondering what this style was called searching experimental web tutorials never worked

[EthanJohnsonMay]

the design studio called Mouthwash is the king of brutalism

[joshuakevintaytayan]

i mean, all of us has a different taste when it comes to brutalism design . . . some of us might like some designs, some of us might not so just pick what you like the most : ) because brutalism design has a wider range .

i think this trend works especially that in these modern times we aim for expressionism and experimental design, finding the beauty in the chaos, right now we only need to prioritize functionality over form . just my thoughts .

[tomb]

You are doing an amazing job ! well done

[monahengramokhoro]

What is that excel spreadsheet I want to see

[emmanuelgonzalez]

Can this design trend be achieved in elementor?

[shoggers]

bruh concrete is CHEAP, you could not build the same architecture with other materials for a lower cost

[erinclay]

so it's like the web design version of vaporwave...

[AtomicPixels]

You just shouldn’t. It needs to quietly disappear. And remember it’s place—to cheapen literally any brand or website and appeal to every 4-yr old on the planet.

[oupiuopi]

oh so now I have a name for my style loljk. I called my style messy bc i really dont know what im doing ^^ :p

[dankither]

Brutalism is where graphic design has gone to die... in a stinking pool of its own visual vomit.  

To those promoting this style as a 'design trend' – thanks a lot for turning this industry into an absolute sick joke with this pointless, ignorant garbage. It apparently 'looks like shit on purpose' and is also referred to as 'antidesign'? What, so people just have to be 'anti' everything these days just so they can feel edgy and important or some childish nonsense... or is it that they have to make design look like an absolute clusterfuck because everyone else is doing it and it's so easy and lazy to fire up an app and have it randomly projectile-vomit these god-awful stretched fonts that repeat endlessly down the page, colour palettes that look inspired by the mind of a psychopath, the endless drivel of nonsensical dreck splashed carelessly all over the place, and fucking horrifyingly random and pointless graphics like starbursts, squiggles and outlined boxes with polka dots that are just shat out and onto the design without any reason, rationale or purpose... all coming together to form the most hideous shit-show of unbridled chaotic ugliness, all the while reeking of an utter sense of pointlessness and stupidity that is without purpose, usefulness or meaning.

The world has gone mad and it feels as though people are trying to destroy everything just because they can, without any regard for the consequence to others. Designers are losing everything they've worked their entire lives for aready, thanks to these greedy tech giants who are actively and deliberately cannibalising their own market of creatives, by aggressively marketing their AI tech, designed to steal work away from real designers... you know, because the billions they already make in profit is not enough it seems.

This Brutalist nonsense just hurts an already-embattled design industry and makes an absolute mockery of those many real designers who've worked incredibly hard and dedicated their entire careers to good design – which should serve a strategic purpose and reach its intended audience through meaningful, relevant and attractive visual storytelling – not by haphazardly throwing a bunch of irrelevant rubbish onto a page because someone thought it 'looked cool'.

'Nuff said.