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For a very long time the world of graphic design (as an all encompassing term) has referenced the art world, using it as a rich source of material to draw influence from. Perhaps the most interesting cross over has been advertising's love of Surrealism.

This is a particularly splendid example:

The lineage runs right up to the modern day with the Cadbury's Gorrilla and racing airport vehicles:

Recently I got to wondering if there's any room in the world of websites for some surrealism. I can't think of any off the top of my head, I was reminded of this by the recent post http://www.dynamolondon.org/projects/182 which is almost surreal but falls short into the category of 'lazy metaphor stolen from cinema' which is infinitely less desirable.

So could you have a surreal website? Or do the rules of interface design take precedence? I'm sure there are quite a lot of websites (like the Nokia one mentioned above) which do surrealism as part of a virtual environment, an immersive experience with a story to follow, but could you take the weirdness of Surrealism into a more mainstream website?

Here's perhaps the greatest example of a surreal advert, Seriously what the hell is going on here?