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	Skeuomorphs and Cultural Algorithms
		Skeuomorph - An ornament or ornamental design due to structure… 1889: "The transfer of thong-work from the flint axe, where it was functional, to the bronze celt, where it was skeuomorphic." [1]
		The skeuomorph here does not replace function, but merely simulates the referent, in a mirrored hall of simulations simulating their own simulations.
		I have gone through the foregoing critique of skeuomorphs, because it is clear that they play a large role in the way we constitute our practice.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /geog/gessler/cv-pubs/98skeuo.htm (3825 words)

	Skeuomorph -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Skeuomorph is a term used in the history of (A decorative or artistic work) design and also in other fields including (The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures) archaeology.
		Skeuomorphs may be employed to add an air of authenticity and/or antiquity.
		The layout was designed so that frequently used pairs of letters were separated in an attempt to stop the typebars from intertwining and becoming stuck, thus forcing the typist to manually unstick the typebars and also frequently blotting the document.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sk/skeuomorph.htm (319 words)

	skeuomorph \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Skeuomorph is a term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology.
		It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original.
		Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines.
	www.babylon.com /definition/skeuomorph/English (96 words)

	evacuate & flush
		A skeuomorph is a design feature that is no longer functional in itself but that refers back to a feature that was functional at an earlier time.
		Skeuomorphs visibly testify to the social or psychological necessity for innovation to be tempered by replication.
		Like anachronisms, their perjorative first cousins, skeuomorphs are not unusual.
	lopati.pitas.com /jun_04.html (5132 words)

	Reprocessed
		A skeuomorph is, essentially, a decorative feature which is derived from an earlier structural feature.
		A good example is to be found in classical stone architecture: guttae, the line of protruding cubes which runs underneath a pediment, are decoration derived from the roof joists of the wooden temples which preceded the classical stone temples.
		Visual web design tools are skeuomorphs of print design tools, but they are orthogonal to web design itself, running off on their dangerous tangent and causing more problems than they’ll ever solve.
	reprocessed.org /blog/archives/2005/02/11/web_design_tools_are_skeuomorphs_of_print_design_tools_and_this_is_a_bad_thing.html (2357 words)

	g-one: skeuomorphs
		While investigating metaphor and interface design I came across the term skeuomorph.
		Until recently I have not had a very good definition for skeuomorph, which is a material metaphor, a design feature that is no longer required but points to...
		Until recently I have not had a very good definition for skeuomorph, which is a material metaphor, a design feature that is no longer required but points to a previous technology...
	uber.tv /g-one/archives/2003/12/000213.html (181 words)

	g-one: Laws of media
		Our fundamental discovery upon which this essay rests is that each of man’s artefacts is in fact a kind of word, a metaphor that translates experience from one form into another.
		A skeuomorph is a term used in archaeology to describe a design feature that is no longer required, but points to a previous material.
		For example faux wood panelling, or the concrete poles that are sculpted and painted to look like bamboo poles in the local thai restaurant etc… A skeuomorph can be thought of as a material metaphor.
	uber.tv /g-one/archives/2005/03/005500.html (494 words)

	'Skeuomorph' stumps Alex French in national spelling bee - Thursday, 05/29/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		'Skeuomorph' stumps Alex French in national spelling bee - Thursday, 05/29/03
		'Skeuomorph' stumps Alex French in national spelling bee
		The word she missed, ''skeuomorph,'' means an ornament representing a vessel or tool.
	www.tennessean.com /education/archives/03/05/33383632.shtml?Element_ID=33383632 (243 words)

	plasticbag.org has an archive for october 2004
		Flash do-it-yourself Constructivist Compositionals This is really nice - flash posters in a Constructivist style that are covered in structures of colours and shapes...
		Skeuomorphs may be employed to add an air of authenticity and/or antiquity.
		Links for 2004-10-19 (October 19, 2004) Cocoal.icio.us - Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X I've been looking for a URL manager app for a while, and Cocoal.icio.us also hooks in with tag-lovely del.icio.us as well CNN.com - Transcript of Jon Stewart on Crossfire I...
	www.plasticbag.org /archives/2004/10 (1146 words)

	Grooved ware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beyond this the pottery comes in many different varieties, some with complex geometric decorations others with applique bands added.
		The latter has led some archaeologists to argue that the style is a skeuomorph and is derived from wicker basketry.
		Grooved ware pots excavated at Balfarg in Fife have been chemically analysed to determine their contents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grooved_ware (312 words)

	CIWIC 99 Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		“Skeuomorphs visibly testify to the social or psychological necessity for innovation to be tempered by replication.” (16) In this case, we might comment on the vestiges of the typed or printed page which are kept in word processing programs (at least, those since the Apple IIe days).
		In this sense, it is both an imaginary projection of the idealized telos of technologically mediated existence and the latest instance of the technological interventions in human subjectivity that.
		In contrast to those who point out the nostalgic reliance of electronic text on traditional print culture, we might consider a second point of view--that the remnants of print culture which are visible in electronic technology are a necessary transitional phase (Hayles’ Skeuomorphs).
	www.hu.mtu.edu /~ciwic/1999/thompson.htm (1126 words)

	Skeuomorph - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Skeuomorph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Here you will find more informations about Skeuomorph.
		If you find this encyclopedia or its sister projects useful,
		A good example of a skeuomorph is the QWERTY keyboard which first appeared on the type-writer in 1873.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Skeuomorph.html (317 words)

	Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse
		Hayles borrows the term skeuomorph from archaeological anthropology to describe retro-features of the present (like simulated stitching in vinyl molded plastic or, in my context, document forms akin to jigs) that negotiate a comfort zone between the past and present.
		Reversing the time arrow, we can say that the database- or XML-like features we have noticed in the past are a kind of prophetic relic or reverse skeuomorph.
		Taylor and Leffingwell were most successful at standardizing and managing the managerial art of time-motion study, the lower-order function of scientific management.
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/features/artsstatements/arts.liu.htm (11982 words)

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		The life that once agitated here must have been etherized or buried below the sidewalks.
		Only a single barber pole has escaped the mayonnaising of the place, but it's been left there on purpose, an orphaned skeuomorph.
		One of the storefronts has the name of an architectural firm gold-lettered on it, but the actual business seems to be still outside the area, moving at a snail's pace through shopping malls and new developments where the temptation to remain is great.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2005-03-22/penny.html (449 words)

	i was chatting to my (21 June 2004, Interconnected) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I started this thinking I'd be able to lead some campaign against skeuomorphs in product design, but now I think again it's not really correct.
		The glowing red light isn't a skeuomorph, it's false advertising.
		In Gibson's The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, the chapter "The Theory of Affordances" opens,
	interconnected.org /home/2004/06/21/i_was_chatting_to_my (1259 words)

	Darwin-L Message Log 31: 1-22 (March 1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In a sense, his own usage was "vestigial" in that it carried with it baggage from the past.
		I'm a little puzzled about the discussion of "skiamorphs." The original Bill Atkinson article said that he >got the word, and the concept behind it, from a book on materials >science that I long ago mislaid.
		But I first encountered the word as "skeuomorph," in George Basalla's The Evolution of Technology (1988) [ppb., part of the Cambridge History of Science Series].
	rjohara.net /darwin/logs/1996/9603.html (5422 words)

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