Modern Heraldry

Speak Up's Marian Bantjes makes a somewhat bizarre case for a kind of modern heraldry, in which the established and intricate graphic language of original heraldry is resurrected for the digital age. The comments on her post make good points about the role of symbols in the modern world, the overlooked visual vocabulary in Japanese family crests (hello!), and the design process. Though I'm a little surprised by the general lack of knowledge about heraldry—seems people really don't learn history anymore, do they?