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 ^ _ ^.

Monday, October 21, 2019

Ollivander’s Wand Shop


Featured in: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and later films

Ollivanders is a wand shop founded in 382 B.C. Located in Diagon Alley South Side in London, England, it is owned by the Ollivander family, widely acknowledged to be the best wandmakers in Great Britain.

Ollivander has the ability to find the ideal wand for each customer who visits his store, and also remembers each of the wands he has sold throughout his life.

Related posts: Gringotts Wizarding Bank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_Harry_Potter#Ollivanders

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Octan



Featured in: The Lego Movie (2014)

Octan is a fictional oil company that has appeared in multiple Lego sets since 1992. Before that time, logos of the real-world oil companies Esso, Shell and Exxon were used on sets. In 2014, Lego announced it would not renew its marketing agreement with Shell, under pressure from the environmental group Greenpeace.

The Octan Tower is a Realm in The LEGO Movie, and Lord Business's lair. As its name suggests, it is a large office tower-like building that is the headquarter of the Octan Corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octan

Oceanic airlines



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

Oceanic Airlines, and less frequently, Oceanic Airways, is the name of a fictional airline used in several films, television programs, and comic books; typically works that feature plane crashes and other aviation disasters, with which a real airline would prefer not to be associated.

The brand is used prominently in the TV series Lost, where Oceanic Airlines is featured branded with a highly stylized logo depicting an Australian Aboriginal dot painting that resembles a nazar, a bullseye, an island, or an "O".


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_Airlines

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.


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.


Nakatomi Trading Corporation


Featured in: Die Hard (1988)

Nakatomi Plaza is a high-rise office building in Century City, Los Angeles, California that houses the headquarters of the California branch of the Nakatomi Corporation, a Japanese company. The building used to represent it is played by the Fox Plaza building, the main headquarters of 20th Century Fox.

https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Nakatomi_Plaza

Multi-National United


Featured in: District 9 (2009)

Multi-National United, commonly abbreviated as MNU, is an organization based out of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the world's second largest weapons manufacturer, and were put in charge by the government of South Africa to contain the newly arrived aliens.