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 ^ _ ^.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Sector 7



Featured in: Transformers (2007)

Sector Seven, a top-secret paramilitary American government branch, led by Seymour Simmons. which deals with extraterrestrial technology. Sector 7, was created by President Herbert Hoover.

Sector 7 discovered a piece of extraterrestrial technology called the Supreme Spark on the Colorado River and built the Hoover Dam around it to hide its energy emissions. They also discovered the alien Megatron who was taken to these facilities and was used in the advances of human technology through reverse engineering.

https://transformers.fandom.com/wiki/Sector_Seven
 

Monday, November 18, 2019

N.E.S.T.





Featured in: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and later films

Two years after the Battle of Mission City and the disbanding of Sector Seven, the Autobots and the U.S. military have formed the Non-biological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty (NEST), a classified international task force in order to eliminate the surviving Decepticons. N.E.S.T was founded by William Lennox to create a combined Human/Autobot defense force against Decepticons. Under the classified Alien/Autobot Cooperation Act, the Autobots share intelligence and personnel with the U.S, but not their advanced weaponry.

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/NEST

https://michaelbaystransformers.fandom.com/wiki/N.E.S.T.

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Adipose Industries


Featured in: Dr Who (TV series) (2008)

Adipose Industries was a London company run by "Miss Foster" as part of her plan to breed Adipose on Earth in 2009. The Adipose are short white aliens made from human body fat. The company sold diet pills to reduce fat, but the pills actually created fat babies. They had one million customers in the Greater London area alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partners_in_Crime_(Doctor_Who)

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Van Criss Laboratories


Featured in: Suicide Squad (2016)

Van Criss Laboratories is a division of Wayne Enterprises, focused on constructing nanites (
nanomachines). It was founded by Doctor Van Criss, and has its headquarters in Gotham City. Doctor Van Criss was a scientist working for Wayne Enterprises and an ally of ARGUS, known to have been the one to create the nano-bombs and Task Force X's neck bombs. Dr. Van Criss is a minor antagonist in the DC movie Suicide Squad.

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

The Daily Sentinel



Featured in: Green Hornet (2011)

The Daily Sentinel is a newspaper publication from Los Angeles featured in the Green Hornet. It was founded by James Reid, and was inherited by his son, Britt Reid, upon his father's passing. Britt was also the masked vigilante known as the Green Hornet. Britt uses the newspaper to attract the public's attention to the Green Hornet figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Hornet_(2011_film)

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Advanced Idea Mechanics


Featured in: Ironman 3 (2013)

Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) is a privately funded think tank organized of a group of brilliant scientists whose sole dedication is to acquire and develop power through technological means. Their goal is to use this power to overthrow the governments of the world. They supply arms and technology to radicals and subversive organizations in order to foster a violent technological revolution of society while making a profit.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I.M.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Advanced_Idea_Mechanics_(Earth-616)

Fusion Industries


Featured in: Back to the future II (1989)

Fusion Industries was a manufacturing company in 2015 that made the Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor and many other items that helped the environment.

The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor (also known simply as Mr. Fusion and the fusion generator) was the name of a power source used by the DeLorean time machine.

Mr. Fusion converted household waste to power the time machine's flux capacitor and time circuits using nuclear fusion (it is thought that this is cold fusion), as well as allowing the DeLorean time machine to generate the required 1.21 gigawatts to travel through the space-time continuum. The energy produced by Mr. Fusion replaced plutonium as the primary power source of the DeLorean's time travel and flight capabilities.

https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Fusion

Krei Tech Industries


Featured in: Big Hero 6 (2014)

Krei Tech Industries is a technology development company founded and run by CEO Alistair Krei, the company is a significant element of San Fransokyo's revolutionary technological lifestyle.

Krei Tech's is responsible for a large portion of the city's power, technological advancements, and livelihood. Due to the controversial nature of its CEO, however, Krei Tech is notorious for having somewhat underhanded business practices, particularly in regards to their products.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Krei_Tech_Industries

AmerTek Industries


Featured in: Arrow (TV series) (2012 to present)

AmerTek Industries is a military industrial firm that employed engineer Dr. John Henry Irons. Irons is the engineer that developed the BG-60, a powerful man-portable energy cannon, which is sold to urban arms dealers by AmerTek. When Irons learns that his invention has been used for evil purposes, he destroys the blueprints, quits AmerTek, and starts his own business, Iron Works. At Iron Works, Irons designs and builds a prototype of the armor that will eventually become the "Steel" armor. AmerTek spies steal the blueprints and use them to create their own knockoffs. In their actions, they purposefully target civilians, namely John's family.

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

Cybertronics



Featured in: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Cybertronics of New Jersey, is a company that designs and manufacture Androids. David, a prototype model created by Cybertronics is designed to resemble a human child and to display love for its human owners.

Eventually David is abandoned by the family that received him and the cybertronics leader tries to recover David using his need of love for his adoptive mother to set up a plan that brings him back to the company. At David's return, the leader of cybertronics got fascinated by David's ability to overcome obstacles in pursuit of his goal.

Blogger's note: this is one of my favorite fauxgos. The 3d design is remarkably good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence

Stromberg Shipping


Featured in: The spy who loved me (1977)

Stromberg Shipping Lines, or simply Stromberg Shipping, was a fictional international shipping company founded and owned by wealthy entrepreneur, Karl Stromberg. Ostensibly specializing in the transportation of crude oil, the company was a front for the apocalyptic scheming of its founder.

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Stromberg_Shipping

King industries


Featured in: The World Is Not Enough (1999)

King Industries Plc. is a multinational oil company owned by Sir Robert King and subsequently by his daughter Elektra King. King Industries came into the possession of Sir Robert, then a construction entrepreneur, after he married a woman from Azerbaijan, whose father was an oil magnate and decided to hand the company to him, having no sons of his own.

As a result of this merger of industries, King Industries grew, branching into land development, as well as installing oil pipelines across the world.

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/King_Industries

Drax Enterprise Corporation


Featured in: Moonraker (1979)

Drax Industries or Drax Enterprise Corporation is a company founded and owned by the billionaire industrialist Hugo Drax. Although primarily an aerospace company, the Drax Group also owns a number of subsidiaries worldwide, producing and transporting individual equipment components.

Hugo Drax, uses the company to further his scheme of wiping out the majority of humanity and replacing it with a new master race of 'perfect' human specimens. As an aerospace firm, the company is known for manufacturing the Moonraker space shuttles for NASA.

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Drax_Industries

Ferris Aircraft


Featured in: Green Lantern (2011)

Ferris Aircraft, Inc. is one of the leading aviation companies in the world specializing in advanced aviation concepts. It employs hundreds of people in Coast City, California. The company was founded by Carl Ferris and Conrad Bloch but was later ran by his daughter Carol Ferris. One of the company's pilots was Hal Jordan who later became the Green Lantern for Sector 2814. Hal joined the company and took a position of test pilot like his father Martin Jordan, who was killed in an accident many years before.

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Ferris_Aircraft

Earth Space Defense


Featured in: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Twenty years after the devastating alien invasion, the United Nations has set up the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a global defense and research program that reverse-engineers alien technology and serves as Earth's early warning system against extraterrestrial threats. It was founded by the United Nations on May 25, 1998. David Levinson was appointed as its Director in 2007.

After establishing Area 51 as its headquarters, the ESD set up bases on the Moon, Mars, and Rhea, and orbital defense satellites above Earth, as fortifications against future invasions.

Monday, November 11, 2019

Fhloston Paradise


Featured in: The Fifth Element (1997)

Fhloston Paradise is a large space luxury hotel near the planet Fhloston. It contains, among other things, several swimming pools, restaurants and a concert hall, replica of the old opera house.

Related posts: Zorg Industries

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

Blogger’s note: Completion Note

Up to this point I have posted in alphabetical order all my fauxgo collection that contains a set of classic fauxgos and more recent ones. From now on I will post in no-particular order any fauxgo that I discover or those that you, my readers propose to include. Thanks for reading ^ _ ^.

Zorg Industries



Featured in: The Fifth Element (1997)

Zorg Industries was company based in the Inner Rim system of Son Tau. The company designed, produced, and sold products for the military, government and law-enforcement markets, as well as the enthusiastic hobbyist.

Zorg Industries was founded and led by Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg, a sadistic egotist, who also used the company as a front for his criminal activities.
 

Yashida Corporation


Featured in: Wolverine Inmortal (2013)

The Yashida Corporation is a technology company founded and owned by Ichirō Yashida. After the end of World War II, Ichirō Yashida founded the Yashida Corporation in order to revive Japan's economic and industrial sector and lead it on the road to recovery. Yashida Industries became a powerhouse as one of the premier zaibatsu of the region, and the family business became one of Japan's largest enterprises by revolutionising Japan's medical technology.

https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Yashida_Corporation

Worthington Labs


Featured in: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

Located in San Francisco, California Worthington Labs is a major pharmaceutical company owned by Warren Worthington II, famous for having created the Mutant Cure which temporarily caused the mutant X-gene to be completely suppressed, rendering the mutant to human.

The company is responsible for the creation of the cure for mutants. They required the mutant child, Leech's DNA in order to create it, and they keep him in their primary lab to help continue providing the cure.

https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Worthington_Labs

Wonka Candy Company


 
Featured in: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Wonka
Candy Company is a fictional Chocolate Factory founded and owned by Willy Wonka. This company originally appears in the novels Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Willy Wonka is known as the greatest inventor of candies in the world.

The Willy Wonka Candy Company is a British candy brand founded in 1971 that began as the property of the Swiss corporation Nestlé Corporation. The Willy Wonka brand and the sweets were licensed by Roald Dahl, who created the classic children's novel Charlie and the chocolate factory, where film adaptations were the marketing drive to bring the Wonka brand to reality.

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

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Willy_Wonka_Candy_Company

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Weyland-Yutani Corp


Featured in: Aliens (1986)

The Weyland-Yutani Corporation is a large British/Japanese multinational conglomerate. It was founded in 2099 by the merger of Weyland Corp and the Yutani Corporation. Weyland-Yutani is primarily a technology supplier, manufacturing synthetics, spaceships and computers for a wide range of industrial and commercial clients, making them a household name.

Weyland-Yutani also has numerous non-manufacturing interests; the company has extensive assets in interplanetary shipping and transport, and is one of the corporations that operates human colonies outside the solar system through the Extrasolar Colonization Administration, which it owns or controls.

This huge conglomerate is always on the prowl for the best that space can offer, be it new planets suitable for colonisation or xenomorph tech for the military division.

https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Weyland-Yutani_Corporation

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

WCKD


Featured in: Maze Runner, the death cure (2018)

World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department, generally abbreviated to WICKED (WCKD in the movie adaptation), is an organization originally formed to find a cure for the Flare. After the deliberate release of the Flare virus as a means of population control after the Sun Flares, the remaining governments of the world realized that the virus was far more dangerous than expected and that they had a worldwide crisis on their hands. Thus, they combined their resources to create WICKED, for the world was in desperate need of a cure.

https://mazerunner.fandom.com/wiki/WICKED

Wayne Enterprises


Featured in: Batman Forever (1995) and later films

Wayne Enterprises, Inc., also known as WayneCorp, is a fictional company appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics

The American diversified multinational conglomerate is owned and chaired by Bruce Wayne.. Wayne Enterprises is a green company based out of Gotham City and headquartered in Wayne Tower.

Wayne Enterprises and the Wayne Foundation are largely run by Bruce Wayne's business manager Lucius Fox. Fox makes most company decisions on Bruce Wayne's behalf, since Wayne's time is largely occupied as the vigilante Batman.

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

Virtucon


Featured in: Austin Powers (1997)
 
Virtucon is a multinational conglomerate corporation controlled by Number Two and later Scott Evil. In 1967, Virtucon Industries was founded by Number Two. Even though it got a rocky start as a small business, it eventually gained enough funding and corporate power.

The company started as a volatile chemicals manufacturing company. In 1982, the company switched to the communications industry. By 1997, the conglomerate has grown into several different industries, such as shipping in Texas, a steel mill in Cleveland, oil refineries in Seattle, and a factory in Chicago that produced miniature models of factories.
 

Unites States Police Force



Featured in: Escape from New York (1981) and Escape from LA (1996)

The United States Police Force (USPF) is the American Fascist government's group of soldiers & law enforcers. The USPF is also responsible for imprisoning criminals in Manhattan Island Maximum Security Prison in New York and deporting "moral criminals" to Los Angeles Island.

https://snakeplissken.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_Police_Force

United Citizen Federation



Featured in: Starship Troopers

The United Citizen Federation, also referred to as the Terran Federation, is the unified government of Earth, all inhabited Sol System planets as well as its associated colonies, territories and outposts. The Federation is a veteran-led, republic-style parliamentary system of government based in Geneva, Switzerland and ruled by the authority of the Federal Council in all matters except those directly related to the military.

https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/United_Citizen_Federation

Union Aerospace Corporation



Featured in: Doom (Game) (1993) and its sequels

The Union Aerospace Corporation is the fictional multi-planetary conglomerate (possibly a megacorporation) that operates facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, where Doom takes place, as well as Earth and its Moon, and many offworld moon and planetary research stations including Tei Tenga, Jupiter (and Europa), Venus, Neptune, Amun and Saturn. It was founded in 2015 by Thomas Kelliher.

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Union_Aerospace_Corporation

U.S. Robotics


Featured in: I, Robot (2004)

In the year 2035, USR (U.S. Robotics), design and manufacture humanoid robots to serve humanity. Robots are programed by the “Three Laws of Robotics” to ensure no hostility against humans. Founded by Alfred Lanning , they are responsible for creating the NS-4 and NS-5 robots. USR also created VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence). They also created VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) that serves as central artificial intelligence computer.

VIKI evolves in her understanding of the Three Laws, determining that human behavior toward other humans and the environment will eventually cause humanity's own extinction. She rationalizes that restraining individual human behavior and sacrificing some humans will ensure humanity's survival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(film)

Tyrell Corporation


Featured in: Blade runner (1982)
 
The Tyrell Corporation was a high-tech firm primarily focused on the production of androids known as replicants. It was based in Los Angeles and named after its founder Eldon Tyrell. As of 2019, the corporation was headquartered in two large, pyramid-like structures that lie on the outskirts of Los Angeles.

https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Tyrell_Corporation

Monday, November 4, 2019

Tricell


Featured in: Resident Evil 5 (video game) (2009)

TRICELL is a multi-industrial conglomerate that appeared in Resident Evil 5. It was a conglomerate of three organizations descended from a company called Travis Enterprises. Its name was derived from the triumvirate of "cells" that formed it. The company that was involved deeply with the Plaga outbreak in Kijuju.

Tricell is a business conglomerate dedicated to the transport of materials, development of natural resources and drug production. Tricell emerged in the so-called Age of Exploration, when the company emerged from Travis Trading, a company owned by a European trader named Thomas Travis.

https://monster.fandom.com/wiki/TRICELL

Trask industries


Featured in: X-Men Days of Future Past (2014)

Trask Industries is a company that build the mutant-hunting weapons, artificial limbs and the Sentinels. Founded in 1967, the company was run by Bolivar Trask. Bolivar Trask was an anthropologist but now a military scientist who saw the rise of mutants as a threat to humanity. Bolivar decides that humanity has to fight back against the mutants and develops robotic guardians for humanity, known as the Sentinels.

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

https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Trask_Industries

Transigen


Featured in: Logan (2017)

Secretly, Transigen and his partner Alkali were putting chemicals in mass-produced foods, such as genetically modified corn stalks. These chemicals were suppressing the mutant X gene from being produced and therefore were responsible for the lack of mutant births in the future. Dr. Zander Rice wanted to do this so that mutant births could be selective and controlled.

Transigen began to breed mutants to be used as weapons. They used randomly selected young women to take the child and used genetic samples of mutants to impregnate them. The children were raised in the Alkali facility, where they were subjected to brutal treatment to try to be subjected to obedient weapons for Transigen.

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

Trans American Airline



Featured in: Airplane (1980)

Trans-American Airlines (TAA) was an American fictional airline appearing in "Airplane!", and "Planes,Trains, and Automobiles", a 1980 movie. It is based on TWA, Trans World Airlines. It is known to have bad food and terrible in flight entertainment.