We live in a world layered with imitation. Flip open a calendar app on your phone and you’ll find a stitched leather design. Tap a camera icon and it clicks like an old shutter. Our sleekest technologies, designed to catapult us into the future, are actually draped in the textures and sounds of the past.
This is not accident or nostalgia alone. In fact, the concept is called skeuomorphism, when new technology is made to look old. Skeuomorphs are everywhere once you learn to see them.
But what is this concept? And how does it affect our everyday lives? Click on to find out.