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I feel the original HN is much more brutalist than this demo. Bold colors and saturated gradients are not at all a part of that artistic movement.

"Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design." says Wikipedia. The closest thing to this definition is the original https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and not one of its later variations.

One day I did some contract work at Giorgio Armani's offices in Milan, and, ignorant of brutalism, I thought it was the ugliest building I've ever been in. The entire interior was naked grey concrete. The floor, walls, ceiling. Everything was grey concrete. Now I know that it was brutalist in design, and as an art style it usually is pretty ugly, bare and quite gray.

parent sph 2 years ago

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