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 ^ _ ^.

Showing posts with label Biotechnology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biotechnology. Show all posts

Monday, November 11, 2019

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

Monday, November 4, 2019

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)

Thursday, October 24, 2019

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

Monday, October 21, 2019

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

Saturday, October 19, 2019

NERV



Featured in: Evengelion (Animated Series) (1995 - 1996)

NERV (in German, "nerve") is a special organization that was created to combat the Angels after the catastrophic Second Impact, event that occurred in Antarctica on September 13, 2000 caused by an experiment conducted in Adam. Nerv and is the organization responsible for the creation of the Evangelions.

NERV is a private organization under the direct supervision of the UN, with limited authority over local administration and, to some extent, over United Nations military forces.


Thursday, October 17, 2019

Merrick Biotech




Featured in: The Island (2005)

Biotechnology company that offers suitable replacement organs to famous celebrities who can afford it. Actually, the replacement organs come from clones of their customers. The clones live in a secret facility under the lie that outside world was contaminated long ago and they are the sole survivors, but they could go to an unaffected from contamination Island if they win in a lottery system. Merrick initiates this lottery system which helps him keep the clones under control and avoid any suspicion.

Massive Dynamic


Featured in: Fringe (TV series) (2008 - 2013)

Massive Dynamic is a fictional multinational conglomerate from the TV series Fringe that develops the advancement of weapons testing, robotics, medical equipment, aeronautics, genetics, pharmaceuticals, telecommunication, energy, transportation, and entertainment technology. Fictionally, the headquarters of Massive Dynamic is located at 655 18th Street, New York ("Olivia").


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

Monday, October 14, 2019

INGEN



Featured in: Jurassic Park (1990) and its sequels

International Genetic Technologies, Inc (InGen) is a fictitious US multinational bioengineering and biotechnology company founded by John Hammond. It appears in the books and movies of Jurassic Park.

It is the company responsible for the research that created the Jurassic Park dinosaurs on Nublar Island and Site B on Sorna Island. These islands, according to the novel, were rented to the government of Costa Rica for the investigation of the cloning of dinosaurs that lasted about five years.

Related posts: Jurassic Park
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/InGen 

Friday, October 11, 2019

Essex Corp




Featured in: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
 

Essex Corporation was a mysterious organization that collected the genetic material of mutants for unknown purposes. This is the company of Dr. Nathaniel Essex, a contemporary 1859 biologist from Darwin and obsessed with evolution and mutant genes in it.

As already implied in the previous sentence, Essex's first superpower is an extraordinary longevity. In the comics, Nathaniel Essex receives his superhuman abilities from the Apocalypse itself.