Skeuomorphism vs Skeuomorph - What's the difference?
skeuomorphism | skeuomorph | Derived terms |
(uncountable) The practice of incorporating obsolete or skeuomorphic elements into a design, for familiarity or out of tradition, even though they no longer serve any functional purpose.
(countable) An instance of this practice.
A design feature copied from a similar feature in another object, even when not functionally necessary.
* 1987 , Alexander von Gernet, Peter Timmins, Pipes and Parakeets: Constructing Meaning in an Early Iroquoian Context'', Ian Hodder, ''Archaeology As Long-Term History ,
* 2000', ''"'''skeuomorph "'', entry in Barbara Ann Kipfer, ''Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology ,
* 2005 , Alice A. Donohue, Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Description ,
* 2007 , Jennifer Viegas, "Stonehenge Amulets Worn by Elite", Discovery News , April 6:
Skeuomorphism is a derived term of skeuomorph.
As nouns the difference between skeuomorphism and skeuomorph
is that skeuomorphism is (uncountable) the practice of incorporating obsolete or skeuomorphic elements into a design, for familiarity or out of tradition, even though they no longer serve any functional purpose while skeuomorph is a design feature copied from a similar feature in another object, even when not functionally necessary.skeuomorphism
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(en noun)page 37,
- One of the most striking examples of a skeuomorph is the aforementioned impaled bird motif which has the stem of a pipe thrust through the body of a duck or other bird, so that the mouthpiece protrudes from the bill.
page 519,
- A decorative bow attached to a shoe is a skeuomorph' of the laces once used to tie it; triangular shapes drawn below handles on pottery are ' skeuomorphs of the metal plates by which the handles on metal prototypes were attached; and the semicircular mark on the back of a teaspoon represents the bradening of the handle where it was soldered to the bowl when it used to be made in two pieces.
page 81,
- Such skeuomorphs' can be used to reconstruct ephemeral artifacts that cannot be recovered archaeologically. Understood in this way, the ' skeuomorph functions to extend the archaeological record.
- While working two months ago in South Lowestoft, Suffolk, British archaeologist Clare Good excavated a four-sided object made of the mineral jet. It closely matches a geometrically designed gold object found far away at a burial site called Bush Barrow near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. The match is so close that experts believe the black artifact is a skeuomorph , or a copy in a different material.