Design [CORRUPTED] Philosophy
Controlled
CHAOS
Embracing disorder as a design tool. Information fragments require mental assembly, challenging passive consumption and creating engaging complexity.
Rule
VIOLATION
Intentional rejection of "good design" principles. Visual hierarchy inverted, balance destroyed, creating productive discomfort and memorable experiences.
Digital
REBELLION
Celebrating technological failure as aesthetic choice. Glitch effects, compression artifacts, and digital noise become legitimate design elements.
[ERROR] Disruption Techniques _SYS_CORRUPT
LAYERED TRANSPARENCY
Multiple semi-transparent elements create complex, often illegible overlaps that require viewer engagement to decode meaning through visual archaeology.
INTENTIONAL MISALIGNMENT
Deliberate positioning violations that create visual tension. Elements placed in seemingly random positions to challenge comfortable reading patterns.
DIGITAL ARTIFACTS
Embracing compression artifacts, pixelation, and scanning errors as intentional design elements that celebrate technological limitations.
VERNACULAR INTEGRATION
Elevating amateur graphics, error messages, and found typography to high design status, blurring boundaries between professional and accidental.
INT[ERR]ACTIVE Elements
Control Panel
Material Palette
Key CORRUPT Elements
⚠ Visual Inspiration
- 1990s grunge typography
- Glitch art and databending
- Punk zine aesthetics
- Digital compression artifacts
- Error message interfaces
- Vernacular graphic design
- Post-internet art
- Brutalist web design
- Vaporwave glitch effects
- Amateur photography
- Photocopied textures
- Street art overlays
✖ Color Conflicts
- Electric Lime highlights
- Hot Magenta shocks
- Cyber Yellow warnings
- Digital Red errors
- Deep Black voids
- Dirty White corruption
- Industrial Gray chaos
- Neon against earth tones
- Saturated digital clash
- Monochrome breaks
- Artificial color corruption
- Technical failure aesthetics
◊ Typography
- VT323 pixel monospace
- Inter clean disruption
- Source Code Pro technical
- Extreme tracking variations
- Mixed font weights
- Intentional kerning errors
- Baseline disruption
- Digital distortion effects
- Transparent text layers
- Serif/sans mixing
- Text as visual texture
- Hierarchical chaos
◈ Technical Chaos
- CSS blend modes
- Filter corruption effects
- Transform distortions
- Broken Grid layouts
- JavaScript glitches
- Interactive disruptions
- Responsive chaos
- Accessibility beneath chaos
- Progressive enhancement
- Performance considerations
- Structured disorder
- Semantic rebellion
[SYSTEM] Tools & Resources _CORRUPTED
⚠ Design Software
- Adobe After Effects
- GIMP with distortion
- Figma for chaos
- Glitch art apps
- Processing/p5.js
- Photoshop corruption
- TouchDesigner
- Audacity for visuals
✖ Web Frameworks
- CSS Grid chaos
- Three.js distortion
- WebGL effects
- Canvas corruption
- SVG manipulation
- React chaos hooks
- GSAP disruption
- Shader experiments
◊ Online Resources
- Glitch art communities
- Databending tutorials
- Brutalist web directory
- Post-internet archives
- Error message collections
- Vernacular typography
- Digital artifact libraries
- Punk design history
◈ Inspiration
- David Carson's Ray Gun
- Wolfgang Weingart
- Archizoom/Superstudio
- Post-internet artists
- Glitch art galleries
- Brutalist websites
- Punk zine archives
- Error culture blogs