5.2.5 Brutalist Websites

Travis Scott's website is very minimalistic and simple. It highlights and in my opinion slightly overexaggerates the content it presents. This is done mainly due by use of scale and colour. The animated contents, which in this case are album covers, allow the audience to interact with it. The album covers move accordingly to the cursor movement.

The main page of the website is dark, presenting animated form of sculpture, which can be interpreted as a 'Utopian Dream' or 'Utopian World', a further advertisement of Travis Scott's album.

Bergen Assembly website consists of oversized serif typefaces, giving an impression of slight complexity. However the size of the typefaces comparing to more mainstream websites makes the website appearing to be slightly outdated in my opinion. The colours and bold, where the only contrasting piece of information on the website is large, flashing-yellow sign 'Subscribe' presented as a neon lamp.

2018: The Year in Dissonance - The New York Times website shows more lively pallet of colours and more organic compositions of serif type. The animated '2018' sign changes its composition while rotating in the very bright background. The first page of the website is very minimalistic, very similar to Travis Scott's website, where highlights on the content are maximised.

Once the user interacts with the '2018' sign by clicking on it, the page transforms into 'arcade mode'. The user is welcomed with 2 news from 2018, accompanied with catchy, arcade-like music. Similar to the main page, the minimalism and simplicity have been maintained, where flashing stars are creating a focus on the main content of the page.