ECHOES OF THE PAST: SKEUOMORPHISM AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD
BY EVAN SHAMOON
 
EVAN 從早期電腦桌面的設計聊起，各種ICON仿造實體桌面產品的型態，迴紋針、黃色紙張、金屬質感垃圾桶等，當時的設計具備相當程度的仿真。再帶到現在素食產品「未來肉」的擬態真肉。
 
台灣在住法國音樂人Luc Jolivet (又名Norman Bambi、又名One Key) ，創立出版品牌Good Timing Books。此書為Good Timing Books 系列叢書005。
 
Food has always been a product of technology and culture, from fire and fermentation to factory farms and flavor labs. Currently, the world's meat, egg and dairy production is caught between the environmentally and ethically archaic form of industrialized animal agriculture, and a new one where these foods can be made from plants or grown in cell culture bioreactors.
 
Fundamentally, much of what we're developing today - bleeding plant-based burgers, hyperrealistic cheeses and eggs - is a form of skeumorphism. Much like early computer and phone applications, these products are designed to evoke feelings of comfort and familiarity by reproducing the look and feel of related physical objects in the real world. 
 
But what happens when food development becomes the equivalent of "digitally native" software interface design? Echoes of the Past: Skeuomorphism and the Future of Food is an attempt to grapple with this shift. It's about breaking food out of its biological past and into something designed for the future - not just imitating what came before, but imagining what comes next.