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 ^ _ ^.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

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)

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

Tricell


Featured in: Resident Evil 5 (video game) (2009)

TRICELL is a multi-industrial conglomerate that appeared in Resident Evil 5. It was a conglomerate of three organizations descended from a company called Travis Enterprises. Its name was derived from the triumvirate of "cells" that formed it. The company that was involved deeply with the Plaga outbreak in Kijuju.

Tricell is a business conglomerate dedicated to the transport of materials, development of natural resources and drug production. Tricell emerged in the so-called Age of Exploration, when the company emerged from Travis Trading, a company owned by a European trader named Thomas Travis.

https://monster.fandom.com/wiki/TRICELL

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)

Trans American Airline



Featured in: Airplane (1980)

Trans-American Airlines (TAA) was an American fictional airline appearing in "Airplane!", and "Planes,Trains, and Automobiles", a 1980 movie. It is based on TWA, Trans World Airlines. It is known to have bad food and terrible in flight entertainment.