About our logo:
Designed by BHPI member Gary Turner!
Inspired by the Bear movement’s place of birth in San Francisco and the California state flag, the Bear History Project International logo includes:
- a bear silhouette in the center of the design, with an arc of seven stars over the silhouette representing the seven continents
- a thunderbolt inside the silhouette honoring the Native Americans who have inhabited California and North America for thousands of years, and
- a row of evergreen trees across the bottom one the design, recalling our origins in nature.
The colors in the BHPI logo include the blonde yellow from the Bear Pride Flag, as well as blue and green. These were the colors Scott Whipple used as part of the graphics he created for the Bear Icons traveling art exhibit created and curated by Les K. Wright. (The exhibit toured from 1999 to 2001, showing in Boston, Provincetown, New York, and Washington. DC. Several of the artworks are reproduced in The Bear Book and Bear Book II.)