Symbolic

The logo used to represent the Burning Man community is very symbolic. The most important element of the symbol is "the man". "The man" very clearly represents to me the unity of mankind, and mankind as a whole. The symbology of the man becomes apparent to oneself as "the man" burns. On the second to final night of the gathering, a towering structure of "the man" is burned in a celebratory ritual. The second element of the logo, the radial sweep from one hand to the other, denotes the Black Rock City (the city formed at burning man) as a whole. The black Rock City plan is designed to be a clock, containing linear streets each at 15 degrees off the center, and radial streets growing as they get father from the center. The entire city revolves around the man who stands tall at the cities vertex.