171–173 of 173 posts
A raised material design button is not ornate, it is plain and simple way to propose an action to a user.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, and the grit of clay at a specific location is arbitrary too, but if that’s the material you have to work with, then that’s the material. I think you’re being too literal about what constitutes material. You think only something the level of hardware or a programming language is “material” and everything above that is arbitrary, but I would argue ALL of the layers of the stack constitute material properties. Ho…
You’re conflating minimalism with Brutalism. Brutalism is about design exposing functionality. Lots of layers in the stack expose functionality (hardware, the OS, the DOM), but presentation is design, not functional. You could switch the default font from one thing to another with zero functional effect.
I'm confused. I don't see what makes most of the examples cited here "Brutalist" in any meaningful fashion. Brutalism is, of course, a fuzzy (and contentious) label to begin with. But the article cites two interpretations of the term that we could use to evaluate how Brutalist a given design is: honest, unpretentious and anti-bourgeois and a sense of roughness, exposed structures and visible thought processes The pro…
> I'm not sure there is any web site that would qualify as Brutalist by this definition. http://danluu.com/