When I designed and laid out the program book for Further Confusion 2006, I created a series of heraldic devices in Illustrator, distressed them in Photoshop to make them look as if they were painted on a wall, and screened them back to about twenty percent for use as watermarks on the editorial pages. I did twenty in all and was very pleased with the results, but of course they were rather obscured by the type and the screen-back. So here they are in all their colorful glory, along with the description I wrote up for the program book:

“Some pages contain achievements (heraldic devices) as decorative elements. Each is drawn from a historical example in A Complete Guide to Heraldry, the authoritative 1909 work by A. C. Fox-Davies. Every effort was made to reproduce accurately the graphic depiction or, better still, the blazon (written description), as the latter, not the former, is considered the definitive version of an achievement.”