Logo nerds flocked to read Counter-Print’s book of heraldry-inspired designs first time around. As the publisher returns with Modern Heraldry: Volume Two, we dissect the relationship between the ...

There is a long tradition of heraldry in western history from the early Greeks to today. As Soldiers donned more protective armor during the Middle Ages, the ability to identify friend or foe was ...

When service members hear the term ‘military grade’ they often think of cheaply-made or poorly designed garbage that does not work, like the earplugs they used in Iraq or the Army’s Universal ...

One would have thought that in the post-Vatican II era, the papacy — which had dispensed with coronations, tiaras, silken gloves, the sedia gestatoria and ostrich feather fans, — would have shelved ...

Symbols have distinguished friend from foe in warfare throughout recorded history. Organizations of the United States Air Force, like other military organizations, employ heraldic emblems as a means ...

Two armies, resplendent in medieval plate-like armour, size up each other on the outskirts of a NSW state forest, waiting for the order to charge. The tension is broken momentarily by the ding of a ...

Thought to have been adopted sometime in the 12 th century, the historic system of heraldry – coats of arms and other graphic armorial bearings – was designed so that individuals could identify ...

Many cultural tourists would have noticed the Grand Masters’ Latin inscriptions and coat of arms on buildings, coins, medals, manuscripts and other printed material. For instance, usually Grandmasters ...

Before the name of your tailor, the make and model of your car, or the size of your superyacht mattered, and before logo-laden handbags or even old school ties, the status symbol for the seriously ...