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 Science research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science research. Show all posts

Saturday, May 2, 2020

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

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 12, 2019

Earth Space Defense


Featured in: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Twenty years after the devastating alien invasion, the United Nations has set up the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a global defense and research program that reverse-engineers alien technology and serves as Earth's early warning system against extraterrestrial threats. It was founded by the United Nations on May 25, 1998. David Levinson was appointed as its Director in 2007.

After establishing Area 51 as its headquarters, the ESD set up bases on the Moon, Mars, and Rhea, and orbital defense satellites above Earth, as fortifications against future invasions.

Monday, November 11, 2019

Yashida Corporation


Featured in: Wolverine Inmortal (2013)

The Yashida Corporation is a technology company founded and owned by Ichirō Yashida. After the end of World War II, Ichirō Yashida founded the Yashida Corporation in order to revive Japan's economic and industrial sector and lead it on the road to recovery. Yashida Industries became a powerhouse as one of the premier zaibatsu of the region, and the family business became one of Japan's largest enterprises by revolutionising Japan's medical technology.

https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Yashida_Corporation

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

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Sacks Group LTD




Featured in: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

Sacks Group Ltd. worked on a secret project, whose intent was to create a serum to protect people against biological weapons. Dr. O'Neil and Eric Sacks worked with four baby turtles and a rat as test subjects, which eventually turned them into mutants. However, O'Neil realized that Eric Sacks worked secretly for Shredder and would use his hard work to pollute the city he wanted to protect.

https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_O%27Neil_(Paramount)

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Pym Technologies



Featured in: Antman (2015)

Pym Technologies was a technology and scientific research company which specializes in nanotechnology and human enhancements, as well as molecular and atomic studies.

Upon leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. after the disappearance of his wife, Hank Pym founded his own company, Pym Technologies. This company advanced the fields of nanotechnology, human enhancements, and molecular and atomic studies; with Hank Pym earning a distinguished reputation in the technology community.

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Pym_Technologies

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

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.


Friday, October 11, 2019

Dharme initiaitve




Featured in: Lost (Tv series) (2004 - 2010)

The Dharma Initiative, also written DHARMA (Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications), is a fictional research project featured in the television series Lost. It was introduced in the second season episode "Orientation". In 2008, the Dharma Initiative website was launched. Dharma's interests were directly connected with fringe science. Dharma is a Sanskrit term used in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. The logo is a circle with the word "dharma" inside, all inscribed inside a bagua.


Sunday, October 6, 2019

The Aperture Laboratories



Featured in: Portal (Video game) (2007)


The Aperture Laboratories Computer-Aided Enrichment Center is a Aperture Science Innovators research facility built completely underground, that forms the setting of Portal and Portal 2. Aperture Science is a direct rival to Black Mesa and, as revealed by in-game information and a website for the fictional company, initially provided shower curtains for the US military.