Even today you could visit somewhere on the other side of the world and find someone wearing a tie die shirt, or maybe even a Grateful Dead shirt, yet they do not know The Grateful Dead, this is part of the unspoken magic of the Dead. Tie Dying shirts and other items became popular from the Dead, as they met a roadie who started doing it one day. Thinking nothing of it they began to drape these large "tie dye" blankets over their equipment boxes while they played, this is when the tie dye trend started.
Another very common logo for the Grateful Dead is the skull with the lighting bolt going through it, this too is an image that most people have seen weather they can relate it to the Dead or not. The skull is red, white and blue and have a lightning bolt going through the head, this was on the cover of the album Steal Your Face, and the skull is now referred to as the Steal Your Face logo. The logo was created by the Dead's friend Owsley Stanley and was originally used to put on the bands equipment boxes to tell there's apart from other bands.
Another image related to The Grateful Dead is the "dancing bears" that many people see worn on t-shirts or stickers by dead heads across the world. This was an image created by a man named Bob Thomas who was also friends with the Dead and who helped on the "steal your face" logo. The man Owsley Stanley who was the man who created the "steal your face" logo as well as produced a lot of the Grateful Dead's music also had a nickname named "bear." The "dancing" bears was an homage almost to Stanley, who they were using the dancing bears as the cover for the album that Stanley produced. A common misconception about these bears was that they are actually not dancing, they are marching! clearly Bob Thomas's wasn't able to fully get his point across because they most certainly became known as the "dancing bears."
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