In a recent project created by designer Matt Brown — a former expat, trained at Sweden’s Umea Institute of Design and currently based in Boston — he created a futuristic world in which we’d print our own food from our home printers, marinate beef from the inside out and grow fruit that would look like an ordinary apple but, when chopped, would reveal an alien core of strawberries, grapes and cherries.

He wrote the booklet for this visionary project on a crappy old typewriter that lacked both a working space bar and an @ symbol.

There’s a saying that goes, “If you’ve got one foot in the past and one foot in the future, then you’re pissing on the present.” But I wouldn’t really call what Matt Brown is doing “pissing.” Hell, I’d call it art.