There are hundreds of ways to devise a shield in heraldry. The designer should try to avoid the obvious, use imagination, do research, get help from a graphics shop, or ask the Army Institute of ...

Indeed, earlier in the year, Design Week reported that the appreciation and adoption of heraldry and vexillology was a growing interest in modern regional Scotland. As shown in Modern Heraldry: Volume ...

The checkerboard was a key design feature in early heraldry or coats of arms. Heraldry first appeared in the second half of the 12th Century, when crusaders introduced symbols on their shields ...

In subsequent years, the popularity of heraldry spread and shields or coats of arms were adopted by religious communities, trade guilds, cities, as well as the noble and royal households.