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 Robotics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robotics. Show all posts

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

Monday, April 13, 2020

SHAO Industries


Featured in: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Shao Industries was presumably established following the end of the Kaiju Wars in 2025. Shao Industries provided cutting-edge technology to the likes of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, supplying the latter with state-of-the-art weaponry and equipment along with innovative mechanical designs for optimal performance and efficiency, in the years following the reconstruction of the organisation. Shao Industries became a major corporate conglomerate as a result of Liwen Shao's political, technological, and business savvy.

Related posts: Pan Pacific Defense Corps

https://pacificrim.fandom.com/wiki/Shao_Industries

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

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

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

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

Tokonoma


Featured in: Total recall (Remake) (2012)

At the end of the 21st century, Earth is devastated by chemical warfare. Remaining habitable land is found in just two territories: the United Federation of Britain (UFB), and the Colony, covering Australia.

Tokonoma creates police robots for the United Federation of Britain (UFB), located on the British Isles and northwestern Europe. Factory workers who live in the Colony quickly commute to the UFB each day via “The Fall,” a gravity elevator through the Earth's core which takes 17 minutes to traverse.

Related posts: Rekall, First Bank of New Asia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_(2012_film)

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Tetravaal



Featured in: Chappie (2015)

Tetravaal manufactures armor-plated attack robots among other weapons. In an effort to combat the high crime rate in Johannesburg, the South African police force purchases these robots, which prove successful in reducing crime.  The robot's inventor Deon Wilson is praised for Tetravaal's success.

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

Sirius Cybernetics Corporation


Featured in: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)(1981)

The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is the primary manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of robots, autonomic assistants and labour-saving devices, such as lifts, automatic doors, ventilation systems for the known universe. They are not, however, known for the quality of their products. Their main flaw is the instability of its robotics and its software.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_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.

Saturday, October 19, 2019

NorthAm Robotics


Featured in: Bicentennial Man (1999)

NorthAm Robotics is a company that creates androids for multiple purposes, like in the case of "Andrew" who joins the Martin family home to perform housekeeping and maintenance duties. the Martin family realizes that Andrew can both identify emotions and reciprocate them. The family is astonished by his creativity and “Sir” Richard Martin takes him to NorthAm Robotics to inquire if all the robots are like him. The company's CEO (Stephen Root) sees this development as a problem and wishes to scrap Andrew. Instead, "Sir" takes Andrew home and allows him to pursue his own development.


Thursday, October 17, 2019

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

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.



Hanka Robotics





Featured in: Ghost in the Shell (2017)

In the near future, humans are augmented with cybernetic improvements to traits such as vision, strength, and intelligence. Augmentation developer Hanka Robotics establishes a secret project to develop an artificial body, or "shell", that can integrate a human brain rather than an AI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(2017_film)

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

BlueBook


Featured in: Ex Machina (2015)

BlueBook is one of the most popular search engine in the world. Caleb, a programmer of the Bluebook company that receives as an award the invitation of Nathan, the president of the company where he works, in order to perform the Turing test (ability test to exhibit human-like behavior) to an android (a ginoid) with artificial intelligence.