Family History, Coat of Arms

Brief: Research family history and background specifically regarding initial immigration to the United States. Then create a coat of arms, an animated variant, and finally integrate both into AR using the app Artvive.

Tools: Illustrator, After Effects, InDesign and Artvive.

Design decisions: The Core of the coat of arms is based on the initial careers of my family as smiths, Miners, and railway workers. The compass is there to represent the nautical journey of my family as well as the following of the sun west. The sun is a reference to the Celtic legends of Avalon a land of resurrection and healing said to lie in the west with the path of the sun. The sun also ties into the Baltic legend of Kalvis a smith deity said to create the sun every morning. The Moon phases were placed to represent the passage of time and generations as well as to work with the sun to symbolize the cycle of death and rebirth as well as the otherworlds frequently discussed in my ancestral mythologies.