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, November 4, 2019

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)

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.

TET


Featured in: Oblivion (2013)
 
The Tet is an enormous tetrahedral space station, 30 miles per side orbiting Earth that was originally thought to be inhabited by humans who were yet to travel to Saturn's moon of Titan. It was later revealed to be an alien artificial intelligence that invaded Earth, and wiped out most of human civilization in the year 2017. The tet has under his command, under deception, several humans who are responsible for protecting the extraction of resources from the earth. Among them is the technician Number 49 Jack Harper.

Very little is known about the Tet's origins. The artificial intelligence feeds off of one planet after another for its resources, most likely for its own survival, as it was only interested in fusion energy during the harvesting of Earth.

https://oblivion-film.fandom.com/wiki/The_Tet

Stark Industries


Featured in: Ironman (2008)

Stark Industries is primarily a defense company that develops and manufactures advanced weapons and military technologies. The company manufactures the armor worn by Iron Man and War Machine. It builds the helicarriers used by S.H.I.E.L.D, and it produces the Quinjets used by the Avengers.

Stark Industries was founded by Isaac Stark, Sr. in the 19th century and later taken over by Howard Stark and then by his son Tony, after his death. Over the years, through bankruptcy, Tony's "death", Tony's return and hostile takeovers, the company has gone through many name changes.
 
The company undergoes a transformation into more altruistic goals when Tony Stark has a conversion en route to becoming Iron Man. Here, for once, is a military-minded corporation with a sense of ethics.

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

Spectacular Optical


Featured in: Videodrome (1983)

Spectacular Optical is a fake eyeglasses company that acts as a front for a NATO weapons manufacturer featured in the movie Videodrome.

The company produced Videodrome, a cable TV show that secretly gives its audience hallucination-inducing brain tumors.

https://fictionalcompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Spectacular_Optical