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 Computer Company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computer Company. Show all posts

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

Monday, October 21, 2019

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.

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Metacortex






Featured in: Matrix (1999)

MetaCortex (sometimes called MetaCortech) was a prominent software company in the Matrix that Neo worked for. It was referred to as being a "respectable software company" by Agent Smith. On what might have been his last day of work there, Neo, as Thomas Anderson, was being reprimanded by his boss, Mr. Rhineheart regarding his punctuality.

Blogger's note:

Matrix is one of my favorite science fiction movies because it refers to topics such as robotics, artificial intelligence, messianic figure, collapse of civilization, search for faith and internal conviction.

Monday, October 14, 2019

INITECH


Featured in: Office Space (1999)

Soulless software company seen in Office Space, known for its poor morale, bullying management style and Hawaiian Shirt Fridays.The staff constantly suffer under callous management, especially Initech's smarmy vice president Bill Lumbergh.

Friday, October 11, 2019

ENCOM



Featured in: Tron (1982) and its sequels


ENCOM is an American multi-national computer technology corporation that developed many important programs and technologies such as digitization hardware and software, the MCP and Tron. In the 1980s ENCOM was mainly focusing on defense systems, but quickly began focusing more on video games after the amazing success and profits produced by games such as Space Paranoids and Light Cycles. The company is headquartered in Center City.

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Cyberdyne Systems



Featured in: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

U.S. defence experts who try to eliminate human error from warfare by creating the self-aware Global Digital Defence Network known as Skynet. After obtaining a Terminator's remains, Cyberdyne reverse engineers its CPU and creates a powerful new microprocessor for weapons systems, becoming a major contractor for the US military.

Cyberdyne initially began as a manufacturing corporation at 18144 El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, California. Founded during early 1980s, its products are unclear, possibly computers or processors, but from the equipment in its factory and its high tech-sounding name, it seems possible that Cyberdyne might have been some sort of smaller parts producer for larger manufacturers of high tech equipment. As of 1984, the small company owned a factory.