Purpose


Purpose:

I dedicate this blog to gather and share fictional logos mainly from movies. As a graphic designer and science fiction movies lover i find many of them very innovative. Fauxgo was a term coined by designer Tim Armstrong as “symbol or design detail created to represent a fiction company or organization that only exists in movies”. Armstrong affirms that a good ‘Fauxgo’ can help improve the credibility of a movie and become the icon of a movie.

I greatly surprised that some of these logos have jumped to the real world as companies or are inspiration for people to create their own companies or design new logos as you will note in posts.

Due the Armstrong’s fauxgo site is no longer available online i decided to relieve him and share my compilation with you! Feel free to comment about the movies, the companies or about the logos. You can also contribute by mentioning old or new companies in movies or TV series. Thanks for reading ^ _ ^.

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Tetravaal



Featured in: Chappie (2015)

Tetravaal manufactures armor-plated attack robots among other weapons. In an effort to combat the high crime rate in Johannesburg, the South African police force purchases these robots, which prove successful in reducing crime.  The robot's inventor Deon Wilson is praised for Tetravaal's success.

TET


Featured in: Oblivion (2013)
 
The Tet is an enormous tetrahedral space station, 30 miles per side orbiting Earth that was originally thought to be inhabited by humans who were yet to travel to Saturn's moon of Titan. It was later revealed to be an alien artificial intelligence that invaded Earth, and wiped out most of human civilization in the year 2017. The tet has under his command, under deception, several humans who are responsible for protecting the extraction of resources from the earth. Among them is the technician Number 49 Jack Harper.

Very little is known about the Tet's origins. The artificial intelligence feeds off of one planet after another for its resources, most likely for its own survival, as it was only interested in fusion energy during the harvesting of Earth.

https://oblivion-film.fandom.com/wiki/The_Tet

Stark Industries


Featured in: Ironman (2008)

Stark Industries is primarily a defense company that develops and manufactures advanced weapons and military technologies. The company manufactures the armor worn by Iron Man and War Machine. It builds the helicarriers used by S.H.I.E.L.D, and it produces the Quinjets used by the Avengers.

Stark Industries was founded by Isaac Stark, Sr. in the 19th century and later taken over by Howard Stark and then by his son Tony, after his death. Over the years, through bankruptcy, Tony's "death", Tony's return and hostile takeovers, the company has gone through many name changes.
 
The company undergoes a transformation into more altruistic goals when Tony Stark has a conversion en route to becoming Iron Man. Here, for once, is a military-minded corporation with a sense of ethics.

Stagg Enterprises



Featured in: The Flash (TV series)(from 2014 to present)

Stagg Enterprises also known as Stagg Industries or just STAGG is a fictional multibillion-dollar multinational corporation in the DC Comics universe. It is owned and run by businessman Simon Stagg.

Stagg Enterprises was founded by CEO and billionaire Simon Stagg who has offices in New York City, Los Angeles and Gotham City. His company is responsible for pioneering new, innovative methods in the fields of engineering, chemistry and genetics. Stagg Industries had various subsidiaries; Stagg Mining Company, Stagg Cruise Lines, and Stagg Robotics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagg_Enterprises

Spectacular Optical


Featured in: Videodrome (1983)

Spectacular Optical is a fake eyeglasses company that acts as a front for a NATO weapons manufacturer featured in the movie Videodrome.

The company produced Videodrome, a cable TV show that secretly gives its audience hallucination-inducing brain tumors.

https://fictionalcompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Spectacular_Optical

Soylent Corporation



Featured in: Soylent Green (1973)

The Soylent Corporation is the leading food manufacturer in the year 2022, a time when the world has become overcrowded and the greenhouse effect has left the planet swelteringly hot and humid all year round. With food becoming increasingly scarce, the Soylent Corporation provides the processed rations that the population must subsist upon, reportedly created using high-energy plankton still found in the world's oceans. The company actually manufactures food from human remains due to lack of resources.

https://fictionalcompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Soylent_Corporation

S-mart



Featured in: Army of Darkness (1992) from The Evil Dead trilogy

S-Mart was the department store that Ash and Linda worked at. It's slogan is: "Shop Smart! Shop S-Mart." S-Mart only appeared on film in the third installment of the Evil Dead trilogy, Army of Darkness, but it went on to become a major setting for the Army of Darkness comic books.

https://evildead.fandom.com/wiki/S-Mart

Sirius Cybernetics Corporation


Featured in: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)(1981)

The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is the primary manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of robots, autonomic assistants and labour-saving devices, such as lifts, automatic doors, ventilation systems for the known universe. They are not, however, known for the quality of their products. Their main flaw is the instability of its robotics and its software.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Sato Enterprises


Featured in: Karate kid 2 (1986)

Over time Sato Toguchi has acquired multiple properties, in addition to the dojo, as farmland in Tomi Village, and an ancient castle both in Okinawa. The castle was the traditional site where the O-bon festival was held. Sato sold with the artistic and archaeological pieces of this castle.

Blogger’s note: I personally reconstructed this fauxgo because i found the original in low resolution. This is one of my favorite fauxgos not only because of the design but also because of the symbolism of koi fishes, which represent the overcome of obstacles and friendship. Koi fish have a very long history in Chinese and Japanese culture.

https://thekaratekid.fandom.com/wiki/Sato_Toguchi

Sato's Karate Dojo



Featured in: Karate kid 2 (1986)

Sato's Karate Dojo was the biggest dojo in Okinawa, Japan founded by Sato Toguchi and operated by his nephew and top student, Chozen. Sato became an official karate instructor for the U.S. military over the next 40 years, presumably to personnel stationed in Okinawa.

Related posts: Cobra Kai

https://thekaratekid.fandom.com/wiki/Sato%27s_Dojo

Sacks Group LTD




Featured in: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

Sacks Group Ltd. worked on a secret project, whose intent was to create a serum to protect people against biological weapons. Dr. O'Neil and Eric Sacks worked with four baby turtles and a rat as test subjects, which eventually turned them into mutants. However, O'Neil realized that Eric Sacks worked secretly for Shredder and would use his hard work to pollute the city he wanted to protect.

https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_O%27Neil_(Paramount)

Rust-eze




Featured in: Cars3 (2006)

Rust-eze is a American company owned by Dinoco. Its selling medicated bumper ointment, with a rear end formula, for cars with rusty bumpers, to get rid of rust. It was created in 1990 by Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze and since then became recognized trademark in United States.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Roxxon Energy Corporation



Featured in: Iron Man (2008) and other Marvel Comics cinematic universe films or TV series

Roxxon Energy Corporation (also known as Roxxon, formerly known as Roxxon Oil Company) is the name of a fictional massive petroleum industrial conglomerate in the Marvel Universe appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The company is depicted as having been run by various executives who are typically ready and eager to use any underhanded and illegal option to secure their profits, up to and including violence. As such, they are a consistent opponent of the superheroes, such as Iron Man.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa_de_Energ%C3%ADa_Roxxon

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Roxxon_Energy_Corporation

Rekall


Featured in: Total Recall (1990)

Late 21st century firm seen who deal in the implantation of false memories and supporting artifacts, ostensibly, just harmless stuff like holidays or adventure, but really they deal in espionage issues. The concept was first authored by Philip K. Dick in We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.

Related posts: Federal Colonies

Resources Development Administration


Featured in: Avatar (2009)

The Resources Development Administration, or RDA, is the largest single non-governmental organization in human space. This company outmatches most of Earth governments in wealth, political influence, and military capability. The RDA has monopoly rights to all products shipped, derived, or developed from Pandora and any other off-Earth location.

RDA are Space-faring miners who have turned to alien planets, notably Pandora in, to locate precious minerals to replace Earth's depleted stocks. The RDA funds the experimental Avatar programme.


https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Resources_Development_Administration

Pym Technologies



Featured in: Antman (2015)

Pym Technologies was a technology and scientific research company which specializes in nanotechnology and human enhancements, as well as molecular and atomic studies.

Upon leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. after the disappearance of his wife, Hank Pym founded his own company, Pym Technologies. This company advanced the fields of nanotechnology, human enhancements, and molecular and atomic studies; with Hank Pym earning a distinguished reputation in the technology community.

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Pym_Technologies

Precrime


Featured in: Minority Report (2002)

Precrime is the name of a Washington D.C. prototype police department whose task is to identify and arrest people who will commit crimes in the future. The operation of the agency is based on the existence of "precognitive mutants", a trio of quasi-vegetative beings whose visualizations are incoherent are analyzed by a computer. Precrimen manages to reduce crime to zero which promotes the federal government to adopt the controversial program nationwide.

This agency appears originally on the short science fiction story of Philip K. Dick written in 1956 and called "The Minority Report."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)

Monday, October 21, 2019

Pizza Planet


Featured in: Toy Story (1995)

Pizza Planet is a pizza restaurant that appears in Toy Story. In the film, it is a large, sci-fi-themed restaurant with arcade games including robot guards at the entrance. The company runs a fleet of derelict Toyota Hilux pickup trucks with a rocket on the roof featuring the restaurant's logo, as seen in Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3. There is a Pizza Planet reference in every Pixar feature film to date except for the film The Incredibles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pixar_film_references#Pizza_Planet

Pepsi Perfect



Featured in: Back to the future: Part 2 (1989)

This is a drinks company wel known in the real world but this version called pepsi perfect, is presented as a vitamin-enriched variety and with a fresh logo. Pepsi perfect is sold at the Cafe 80's in 2015. On October 5, 2015, Pepsi announced that they would be releasing a limited quantity of Pepsi Perfect bottles, some of which were given out to lucky attendees of New York Comic Con. Pepsi does this to commemorate the movie just in the year in which Marty McFly travels to the future in part 2 of the trilogy.

https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/Pepsi_Perfect

Oscorp


Featured in: Spiderman (2002) and its sequels

Oscorp, also known as Oscorp Industries, is a multibillion-dollar multinational corporation appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, predominantly Spider-Man comics. The corporation is based out of the Oscorp Tower in New York. It was created and run by its CEO Norman Osborn. The company typically deals with experimental science, military research and cross-species genetics.

Related posts: The Daily Bugle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscorp

Omni Consumer Products


Featured in: Robocop (1987) and sequels

Omni Consumer Products (OCP) is a corporatocratic megacorporation in the RoboCop franchise. It creates products for virtually every consumer need, has entered into endeavors normally deemed non-profit, and even manufactured an entire city to be maintained exclusively by the corporation. OCP is a modern example of the evil megacorporation in science fiction.

OCP is depicted as a megacorporation with divisions affecting nearly every level of consumer need, society, and government. Their products range from consumer products to military weaponry and private space travel.