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Heraldry Project

Heraldry Project. Design 2 / Fall 2013. Background. The origins of heraldry lie in the need to distinguish participants in combat when their faces were hidden by iron and steel helmets.

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Heraldry Project

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  1. Heraldry Project Design 2 / Fall 2013

  2. Background • The origins of heraldry lie in the need to distinguish participants in combat when their faces were hidden by iron and steel helmets. • Heraldry is the profession, study or art of creating, granting and blazoning arms and ruling on question of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms. • The practice dates back nearly 900 years.

  3. Three soldiers on the Bayeux Tapestry (11 century) bearing pre-heraldic shields

  4. Tinctures • Tinctures are the colors, metals, and furs used in heraldry • Main colours are (Norman French) : Sable (black) / Gules (red) / Azure (blue) / Vert (green) / Purpure (purple) • 3 rules for colour are: never place a metal on metal / never place a colour on a colour / a fur can take the place of a metal or a colour. • The metals are: Or (Gold-yellow) / Argent (Silver-white) • The furs are patterns that suggest actual furs worn by medieval nobility.

  5. Tinctures • Tinctures are the colors, metals, and furs used in heraldry

  6. a real An image of a real piece of vair- made from the back and front of squirrel pelts sewn together.

  7. FursThe main fur patterns are ermine and vair

  8. Patterns

  9. Division of the Field Parted or Party are as follows: • Party per fess (halved horizontal) • Party per pale (vertical) • Party per bend (diagonal upper left to lower right) • Party per bend sinister (diagonal upper right to lower left) • Party per saltire (diagonal both ways- like an “X”) • Party per cross (divided into four quarters) • Party per chevron • Party per pall (divided into 3 parts- like a “Y” shape)

  10. Ordinaries Ordinaries resemble partitions but are formally considered objects on the field. The main ones are as follows: • Cross • Pale (vertical stripe down the middle) • Fess (horizontal stripe) / Bar (a narrower fess) • Bend • Chevron • Saltire (St. Andrew’s cross like an “X”) • Chief (horizontal band across top of shield)

  11. Lines of Variation • Ordinaries do not need straight lines. They can be created using various lines such as; engrailed, dancetty, wavy, twigged.

  12. Charges Charges can be a geometric design, symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant or object. http://www.dksdesigns.net/symbolism.html

  13. Heraldic Beasts In 1536 King Henry VIII commissioned the carving of a menagerie of heraldic beasts to celebrate his marriage to Jane Seymour. The beasts were placed throughout Hampton Court Palace, but were destroyed in the late 17th century. Two hundred years later the beasts were recreated but remained undecorated. In 2009 Patrick Baty painted and gilded eight wooden replicas, which he put on display in a Tudor-style garden within the palace.

  14. Assignment 2Heraldry15% Due : Oct 15 • Description: You’re going to need to conduct research for this project - I want you to look at the history of the design of family crests, and heraldry in general. Typically, heraldry consisted of sets of complex and iconic symbols, meant to represent complicated narratives and histories. I want you to collect at least 15 heraldic symbols that are interesting to you, and that you feel you could use in a heraldic design for yourself. Collate them into a document in illustrator, and write a blurb telling me why you like them. You’re going to hand this in to me with the project, so design it well, and spend some time choosing some really interesting symbols and writing about them - research their meaning and history, and their traditional associations with certain qualities, (strength, intelligence, creativity) families (what’s the geographical location of your crest/symbol? Where is it from?), colours, etc. • Building on this research, you’re going to design your own heraldic crest. You’ll use the symbols you chose as a departure point - you’re expected to design something completely new and (obviously) really interesting. Your mission here is to acknowledge the history of these heraldic symbols by using historical conventions to create something modern. Your crest or heraldic symbol should function as a kind of logo – this logo must incorporate some of the historical aesthetics of these crests, while appearing current in it’s design. This project is meant to get you conducting research, and collecting material to work from. • Make your crest in a letter-size document in illustrator - it should be large, and no live tracing please! I want you to draw it by hand with the pen tool. Use 6 colours only, one of which is your least favourite. Pay attention to, your layout, scale etc. Will your logo be legible when scaled down or up? Is it too sparse or too complicated? Can we ascertain what your symbols are and what significance they have in the design? • Include the rules of Tinctures, and at least one of each of the following; ordinaries; lines of variation; and charges.

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