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WHAT THIS SITE IS FOR

This site serves as a catch-all hub for periodic updates on my projects:
illustration, design, heraldic art, and books. For more regular and recent
posts, go to my Instagram account. Thanks for visiting.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2019 by Allen Crawford.


AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION: CHOSEN

Happy and honored to say that two of my prints have been Chosen to be featured
on American Illustration’s website over the coming year.

This entry was posted in Illustration on May 22, 2020 by Allen Crawford.


TEES AVAILABLE

New tees available on Cotton Bureau!

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2019 by Allen Crawford.


GICLEE PRINTS FOR SALE

Spotted Lanternfly. 13×19 in. Giclee print on archival paper. $30 plus s/h.

Over the summer I’ve been experimenting with Procreate, a wonderful app designed
for illustrators. I’ve been working up a suite of prints that you can now
purchase on my Big Cartel page. Check them out.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2019 by Allen Crawford.


HERALDRY SOCIETY BIENNIAL CONGRESS: AUG. 9-12, 2018

Several months ago, I was invited to present a paper at the Heraldry Society’s
2018 Biennial Congress at the University of Winchester. The paper, “The Clan
Crawford Association Armorial: An Independent Armorial for the Scottish
Diaspora”, was well-received. Being the first independent armorial of its kind,
there was much to cover: objectives, guidelines, design process, etc. You can
read an abridged version of this paper in the latest issue of The Heraldic
Craftsman (no. 100).

I’m very proud to say that also I’ve been made a member of the Society of
Heraldic Arts.

Following the Congress, my distant cousin Raymond and I embarked on a road trip
through the countryside and back roads of Hampshire, the New Forest, Sussex, and
Kent. It would take a short book to relate all that followed: an Iron Age hill
fort; a black-tie dinner; a stay at the home of the 9th Baronet Kilbirnie; a
visit to Saint Hill Manor, once owned by Raymond’s family but now the UK
headquarters of the Scientologists; an evening of fencing matches after a
thirty-year hiatus; swimming in a pool under a plastic canopy; dowsing for
drainage pipes with wire hangers to find a church’s plumbing issue, zip-lining
through treetops with a precocious nine year-old, and much more. It was quite an
adventure, and a complete delight.

My sincere thanks to the Heraldry Society, Raymond Crawfurd,  John and Jane
Tunesi of Liongam, Bill Beaver, Sir Robert Craufurd, Lady Georgina Craufurd, and
everyone else who made my stay in the UK such a pleasure and a privilege.

This entry was posted in Heraldry on September 11, 2018 by Allen Crawford.


ILLUSTRATION PROJECT: OBSCURA ANTIQUES & ODDITIES

A flyer I’d recently made for my friends at Obscura.

This entry was posted in Jobs on September 10, 2017 by Allen Crawford.


NOW ACCEPTING COMMISSIONS FOR HERALDIC DESIGNS

I’m now officially hanging my shingle as a heraldic designer for Americans who
wish to assume their own arms.

I’m also the designer for the Clan Crawford Association’s Armorial Project. The
CCA appears to be the first clan association to establish this kind of
independent heraldic register.

Since the US has no regulating body for civilian heraldry, it’s important that
Americans seeking to assume arms consult with people who know the rules and
traditions of heraldry, and are able to bring them into a synthesis that is
practical and relevant in an American context.

Heraldry has been an interest of mine for almost forty years. I specialize in
making emblems, badges, sigils, seals, bookmarks, coats of arms, and flags.

When designing traditional coats of arms, I obey the principles of good heraldic
design: proper usage of colors, simplicity of imagery, etc. My designs are bold
and flat because they are symbols, not pictures. They are meant to be
immediately recognized from a distance; that was their original purpose.

I like to get a basic family background (country of origin, ethnicity, any
heraldic traditions in the family) then get the individual bearer’s personal
background (profession, interests, etc) and finally their aspirations or ideals,
things that they find symbolically significant. I synthesize all three of these
aspects and make emblems that are strong, simple, and lasting.

Basic fee for designing a coat of arms is $300. It includes two rounds of
revisions and two files: a JPEG for online use and a PDF for print use. Adapting
artwork for a flag is $150 extra. All designs are owned entirely by the bearer,
and are able to be resized to suit many uses.

Again, I don’t just do heraldry: if shields and helmets aren’t your thing, and
you want something more modern, I also design personal badges and flags.

For more information on American heraldry, visit the website of the American
Heraldry Society, which does a good job of laying down the basic principles. If
you want to register your arms for posterity visit the Society of American
Armigers.

Contact: allen(at)allencrawford.net.

This entry was posted in Heraldry on November 16, 2016 by Allen Crawford.


PINE BARRENS FILM: FIRST OFFICIAL TRAILER

The Pine Barrens – trailer 01 from David Scott Kessler on Vimeo.

For the past four years I’ve been assisting my good friend the brilliant
filmmaker and Pew Fellow David Kessler on his atmospheric, oblique, poetic film.
Add the beautiful film score by The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra (Benjamin
Warfield, Laura Baird, John Robert Pettit, Jesse Sparhawk, and Gretchen Lohse)
and you have something that in the decades to come will be revered and
cherished–not only as a great collaborative artistic achievement, but also as a
lyrical document of a specific place and time that nevertheless transcends
itself into dream.

As someone who loves this precious, threatened place, The Pine Barrens is the
film I had always hoped someone would make of the Pine Barrens. I will always be
in David’s debt for having devoted his considerable artistic energies to it.
It’s been an honor, privilege, and joy to play a small part in its fruition. My
congratulations to David and the Ruins crew on making this masterpiece happen.
Stay tuned for live screenings/musical performances later in the year.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2016 by Allen Crawford.


GOLD MEDAL

The good folks at the Society of Illustrators called today and informed me that
Whitman Illuminated has won the Gold Medal in their Book category! My heartfelt
thanks to the Society of Illustrators. I can’t imagine a greater honor.

The opening reception for the annual book and editorial exhibition will take
place at the Society of Illustrators on Feb. 5, 2016.

This entry was posted in Whitman Illuminated on November 10, 2015 by Allen
Crawford.


IN DEFENSE OF “UNREADABLE” BOOKS

A case for “unreadable” books like mine: “In 2010, psychologists at Princeton
University published “Fortune Favors the Bold (and the Italicized),” a study
demonstrating that people have better recall of what they’ve read when it is
printed in smaller, less legible type. Texts presented in unusual typefaces (…)
created “disfluency” in readers, triggering deeper processing and significantly
improved retention. When people are forced to stare at something to decipher
what it says, it sticks with them.”

This entry was posted in Affected Provincial's Companion on August 5, 2015 by
Allen Crawford.


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