From the outside looking in, adding new custom ship skins to the massively multiplayer space game Eve Online might not seem like a particularly noteworthy change - sure, it's nice to be able to ...

In the Middle Ages, knights-whose view of the battlefield was limited to what they could see through tiny slits in metal helms-recognized the need to be able to better identify friend from foe. Rather ...

Two armies, resplendent in medieval plate-like armour, size up each other on the outskirts of a NSW state forest, waiting for the order to charge. The tension is broken momentarily by the ding of a ...

When service members hear the term ‘military grade’ they often think of cheaply-made or poorly designed garbage that does not work, like the earplugs they used in Iraq or the Army’s Universal ...

Symbols have distinguished friend from foe in warfare throughout recorded history. Organizations of the United States Air Force, like other military organizations, employ heraldic emblems as a means ...

Logo nerds flocked to read Counter-Print’s book of heraldry-inspired designs first time around. As the publisher returns with Modern Heraldry: Volume Two, we dissect the relationship between the ...

DETROIT ARSENAL, Mich. -- Have you ever wondered where all the flags the Army uses come from? Nope? You're not alone. Army flags are ubiquitous, as in everywhere -- and not just displayed in the foyer ...

U.S. military aviation was born under the U.S. Army Signal Corps, which explains why the first fliers' insignia featured wings superimposed on signal flags. The fledgling Air Service racked up an ...

Before the name of your tailor, the make and model of your car, or the size of your superyacht mattered, and before logo-laden handbags or even old school ties, the status symbol for the seriously ...

Coats of arms (or, more accurately heraldic achievements) originated around the eleventh century to identify military units and over the centuries began to be used as logos for families of note, ...