This is the new town center in Selfoss in the South of Iceland. The new buildings are modelled on houses that once could be found in various towns around the country but don’t exist anymore. Do you feel the “sense of pastness”?
Ok, now it gets a bit tricky. Look at this peeled old paint in one of the Selfoss buildings. How charming! Except for that the house is brand new, and this peeled paint is fake. But maybe we again feel the “sense of pastness”?
These are a few skeuomorphs I found on my laptop. People appearantly understand new/digital things better when they look like old/real things
Substack is telling me this post is getting to long so I’ll just rush through my theory:
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Flott færsla. Takk.