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This is the Morris family coat of arms/crest (according to Morris County New Jersey archives). It sports fire, standing for courage;armored helmet standing for knighthood and military service; and lions, standing for audacity and strength. The words "TANDEM VINCITER" translates from Latin to mean "At last it is conquered". As the Chinese did, so did my Celtic ancestors have their own seal to identify those associated with the clan/family. It was placed on banners and scaled down smaller to be used on wax letter seals. The picture and print of the crest suggests an easily noticed Medieval style. The lions, the knights armor; the bold all capital letters. Like I said, it's easy to notice the Medieval style and themes. I first saw not this crest but a very similar looking one with the same Latin "motto" written on it, Tandem Vinciter when I was 14 and looking through books at the library for a report on my heritage. So I used the internet to find this particular image, since I don't have that book with me. Even though no one in my immediate family really sports this crest at all, I think it's cool that some people I didn't even know centuries ago had the same last name as me.
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This is a graffiti alphabet made by a graffiti artist, TORC, out of Perth, Australia. I saw it online in a graffiti artist forum. I thought it was interesting(to me at least) because I'm a big fan of graffiti and street art. As we learned with illuminated manuscripts, alphabets started to adopt different styles(classic, Gothic, Roman, ect...), and therefore different fonts. Graffiti is a font created toward the end of the 20th Century. The reason he laid out an alphabet in his own style was to show other potential graffiti artists what kind of look Australian spray paint had and hopefully inspire them.
I liked that you used the crest, which was definitely used in seals as we discussed in class. It's cool that you incorporated something with your family name! The graffiti alphabet was also really interesting to look at because as in the past they were recreating alphabet styles in order to make it better and more attractive, we are still creating our own styles today.
ReplyDeleteIs that crest related to you at all with your last names being the same or is just at random? But that is really cool and it shows the seals used it class. I also think the graffiti alphabet is cool too espeically because you can relate to it. It shows a different style of alphabets that we have been talking about in class. A more modern kind.
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