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• Undated - Design Shack - Brutalism: A New Trend in Web Design
• 2016.05.09 - WashPo - The hottest trend in Web design is making intentionally ugly, difficult sites
• 2016.05.17 - Envato - It’s Tough Out There: A Look at Brutalism in Web Design
• 2016.05.29 - Boston Globe - Please don’t call the early Web ‘Brutalist’
  • Look around today’s Internet, especially its more design-conscious quarters, and you’ll find more than a few winking callbacks to this bygone era of blaringly basic Web 1.0 hypertext, complete with cheesy Shockwave effects, lame animated GIFs, quirky Javascripts, static layouts, and intentionally nightmarish navigation.
  • It’s a design phenomenon that’s lately received a fair share of attention through the curation of Pascal Deville, whose site Brutalist Websites archives some of the more adventurous recent realizations of the trend, but has also lent the wave a name that seems to be sticking.
  • I humbly submit that “Brutalism” misses the mark. (...) The original architects of the Web were building structures meant to embrace and showcase the freedoms granted by a powerful medium. In its early pages, the Web was experimental, unbound by guidelines or conventions, and marked by millions of hands making it into something – anything. It was certainly ugly, but it was never “brutal.” It was bold and brave (and sometimes blinking). It was heroic!
• 2016.06.05 - Vox - Brutalist architecture turns "ugly" into a design statement. Here's what that looks like on the internet.
• 2016.06.09 - Usabilla - The Curious Case of Web Brutalism
• 2016.08.25 - Web Designer Depot - The Rise and Rise of the Brutalist Design Trend
• 2017.01.03 - Envato - Brutalism: The ‘ugly’ web design trend taking over the internet
• 2017.05.31 - The Verge - This is what a brutalism world would look like on your phone (Satire?)
• 2017.07 - DesignLab - 5 Things Today’s Designers Can Learn From Brutalism
  • Do these sites have any meaningful affinity with Brutalism in architecture? We identified some key Brutalist features earlier in this article: repetitive, geometrical patterns; honesty about materials; social vision; and integrity of function. Certainly, some of the websites listed on Brutalist Websites have little about them that meet these criteria; in many cases, the aesthetic would better be described as postmodern, minimalist or grunge.
  • Some unfortunate misconceptions about Brutalism have found their way into some of the sites featured on Brutalist Websites. These include on the one hand an idea that Brutalism is intentionally “ugly”, or at least indifferent to its outward appearance; and on the other hand an idea that Brutalism is either all about concrete-gray, or about a random, anaesthetic use of color.

Typography

Books

• The Elements of Typographic Style
  • Kevin Systrom was reading this book in the earliest days of Instagram. One of his earliest photos shows a page of the book. His comments: "Sunday reading / Elements of typographic style. Pretty popular book... Just only starting to understand this stuff"

Website Designs I Like

• Letterhead Fonts - http://www.letterheadfonts.com/ - i like the art
• Saddleback Leather - http://www.saddlebackleather.com/ - i like the art
• SoundManager2 - http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/ - I really like how it gives you a bunch of cool stuff to try out on the front page, and even shows you how to use it.
• A Quora question asking for sites with good designs: http://www.quora.com/What-websites-are-admirable-for-their-good-design

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