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, May 7, 2020

NOVA Laboratories


Featured in: Short Circuit (1986)

NOVA Laboratories Incorporated was a robotics laboratory company whose robotics division located in Damon, Washington which was contracted by the military during the Cold War to produce the Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport (S.A.I.N.T. for short) as a way to greatly reduce human casualties in the field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Circuit_(1986_film)

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

La Ratatouille


Featured in: Ratatouille (2007)

La Ratatouille is a bistro in Paris, France featured in the Pixar film Ratatouille. The bistro is owned by Alfredo Linguini and Remy and also serves food to rats on the roof of the property.

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

Jekyll Island


Featured in: Burn Notice (TV series) (2007 to 2013) and many more

Jekyll Island is a brand of beer created by Independent Studio Services as a prop for several TV shows, such as Lost, Dexter and Burn Notice. The brand produces lager, red ale and a root beer. The brewery is supposed to be in the Caribbean, but the real Jekyll Island is one of the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia, USA.

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

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Home Mart


Featured in: The Equalizer (2014)

Home Mart is a home improvement and construction store featured in the film The Equalizer. The store in the film is where the main protagonist "Bob" works his day job, it sells a variety of home improvement products, construction materials and DIY tools. The store is meant to be similar to real-world chains such as The Home Depot.

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

Heisler Beer



Featured in: 2 Broke Girls (TV series) (2011) and many more

Heisler Beer or Heisler Gold Ale is a brand of beer featured in many movies and TV shows due to the use of a prop. The brand is made by prop supplier Independent Studio Services.

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

Gusteau's


Gusteau's is a restaurant in Paris, France founded by Auguste Gusteau featured in Ratatouille.

There is a restaurant in the city of El Alto in Bolivia that took the name of Gusteau's from the movie. This restaurant has been operating since 2017. This restaurant has a Facebook page.

It is usual to see companies that take ideas from movies since their creators do not register their designs.

https://fictionalcompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Gusteau%27s

Gladrags



Featured in: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Gladrags Wizardwear is a clothing store that was founded in 1750 and run by Gladrags Wizardwear Group Ltd., with branches in London, Paris and Hogsmeade. It is full of quirky merchandise and appears to specialise in strange and unusual socks.

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Gladrags_Wizardwear

Saturday, May 2, 2020

Eggman Movers



Featured in: Toy Story (1995)

Eggman Movers is a moving company, which appears in Toy Story and briefly in Toy Story 2, that helps move all the contents of Andy's house to their new house. Their moving van is an orange and white truck with the slogan "Moving the most Coast to Coast" on the trailer.

https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Eggman_Movers

ConSec


Featured in: Scanners (1981)

ConSec is a weaponry and security systems company featured in the film Scanners. Private military company ConSec recruits "scanners", super-powered individuals capable of telepathy and psychokinesis, and uses them in service of the company.

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

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

Cloverleaf Industries


Featured in: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Cloverleaf Industries is a fictional transit company appearing in the 1988 film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It is inspired by the companies of the Great American streetcar scandal and the rise of the Southern California freeway system.

Cloverleaf is based on the real-life National City Lines, a front company controlled by major American automotive and oil companies such as General Motors, which acquired streetcar and electric rail lines across the United States and replaced them with bus lines in order to monopolize the sales of buses.

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

Cerveza Chango


Featured in: Desperado (1995) and other

Cerveza Chango is a beer featured in Robert Rodriguez films such as Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn and Sin City. The beer is named after Chango, the Santeria Orisha of thunder, lightning, and gunpowder.

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

Cabo Air

 
 
Featured in: Jackie Brown (1997)

Cabo Air is a fictitious airline company featured in Jackie Brown. It flies flights from San Lucas to El Paso. It is most likely Mexican. Not much else is known about the airline.

https://fictional-airlines.fandom.com/wiki/Cabo_Air

Big Kahuna Burger


Featured in: Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Big Kahuna Burger is a chain of Hawaiian-themed fast food restaurants that appear in the movies of Quentin Tarantino, including Death Proof, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.

The chain also appears in Robert Rodriguez' From Dusk Till Dawn and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D and the From Dusk Till Dawn TV series.

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

Big Jerry Cab Co.


Featured in: Pulp Fiction (1994)

Big Jerry Cab Co. is a taxi company featured in Pulp Fiction.

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

TriOptimum Corporation


Featured in: System Shock, Video game (1994)

The TriOptimum Corporation (also Trioptimum, or simply Tri-Op), is a multinational megacorporation within the futuristic world of the System Shock video game series (the game is set aboard a space station in 2072). In the style of many cyberpunk science fiction narratives, TriOptimum is immensely powerful, and in terms of its power it rivals or surpasses many nation states in its influence. It also engages in morally questionable technological research.

The TriOptimum Corporation is a business company responsible for the creation of SHODAN, Citadel Station, Von Braun and many more technological advances within the System Shock storyline.

It is considered a mega-corporation due to the fact it has influence in the government and is the major supplier for the military and consumers.

https://shodan.fandom.com/wiki/TriOptimum

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

The Ultor Corporation


Featured in: Red Faction, Video game (2001)

The Ultor Corporation features in the Red faction video game. Red Faction takes place on Mars in the year 2075.

The Ultor Corporation, named after the ancient Roman temple devoted to the Roman god Mars, is the body in complete control of governance and industry on Mars prior to the First Martian Revolution when they are overthrown by the Red Faction insurgency and the Earth Defense Force. While Ultor has interests in nanotechnology and weapon manufacturing, they are primarily a mining company; this can be seen in their logo, a stylized continuous mining machine blade wheel.

Ultor Corporation abuses their workers and forces them to endure hazardous living conditions. A plague of unknown origin sweeps through the colony, but the Ultor does nothing to stop its spread, or to provide aid to the sick.

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