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

Saturday, May 2, 2020

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

Friday, February 7, 2020

Von Doom Industries


Featured in: Four Fantastics (2005)

Von Doom Industries was an international megacorporation belonged to industrialist Victor von Doom, whose headquarters was located in New York City. Its head office is located on the opposite side of Central Park to the Baxter Building. Von doom Industries has been at the fore front of ship and equipment engineering for the past ten years.

The company went bankrupt after a research team was being exposed to the cosmic radiation cloud on a space mission with the four members would forever become the world's greatest superhero team known as the Fantastic Four, and Victor von Doom, who was overseeing the mission, would undergo transmutation and later became the most nefarious and dangerous villain, Doctor Doom.

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

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Antigen


Featured in: Underworld: Awakening (2012)

Antigen is a biotech pharmaceutical company employed by world governments to contain and experiment on Vampires and Lycans after they are captured. In reality, Antigen is a front operated by the Lycans to fool the governments into believing that they are extinct, as to turn the humans’ attention to killing the old adversary of the Lycans, the Vampires. The head of Antigen is Dr. Jacob Lane. Their headquarters are likely located in Hungary.

https://underworld.fandom.com/wiki/Antigen

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

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)

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

Rekall


Featured in: Total Recall (Remake) (2012)

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.

Most of its clients are people fed up with their existence in the real world like Douglas Quaid, a worker at the tokonoma robot factory.

Related posts: First Bank of New Asia, Tokonoma


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_(2012_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

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

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

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

Monday, October 14, 2019

Kinetic Solutions Incorporated




Featured in: Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

In the aftermath of the Battle of Chicago and the subsequent cleanup efforts, robotics company Kinetic Solutions Incorporated (abbreviated as KSI) stands poised to dominate the world's technological marketplace with cutting edge technology aimed at the consumer market. Headed by Joshua Joyce, many of the company's innovations are reverse-engineered from Cybertronian sources.



Jurassic Park



Featured in: Jurassic Park (1993)

Industrialist John Hammond, head of bioengineering company InGen, creates a theme park called Jurassic Park featuring cloned dinosaurs and prehistoric plants, on the Costa Rican island of Isla Nublar. Hammond and his team takes dinosaur DNA trapped in the blood of fossilized blood sucker insects and mix them with reptil DNA to bring to life a great variety of dinosaurs.

Related posts: InGen


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 

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.