Posted: February 17, 2012 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Typography | Tags: acme, aliens, Avatar, blade runner, dinoco, duff beer, fake logo, Fauxgo, fictional logo, fight club, ghostbusters, jurassic park, kobra kai, mad men, oscorp, pixar, robocop, Spiderman, stark industries, the office, Tynm Armstrong, umbrella |
What’s a Fauxgo? Fauxgo (fake logo), created by Tynm Armstrong, is a symbol or other small design created to represent a fictional company or organization that exists only on film. Click through to see some of my favorite fauxgos, and head over to THE SITE for even more.
Kobra Kai (The Karate Kid, 1984)
Buy N Large (Wall-E, 2008)
Pizza Planet (Toy Story, 1995)
Ghostbusters Inc. (Ghostbusters, 1984)
Stark Industries (Iron Man, 2008)
Monsters Inc. (Monsters Inc., 2001)
Daily Bugle (Spiderman, 2002)
Wilderness Explorer (Up, 2009)
Weyland-Yutani Corp (Aliens, 1986)
McDowell’s (Coming to America, 1988)
Oscorp Industries (The Amazing Spiderman, 2012)
Tyrell Corp (Blade Runner, 1982)
Dinoco (Cars, 2006)
Mr. Fusion (Back to the Future Part II, 1989)
Aperture Laboratories (Portal, 2007)
Umbrella Corporation (Resident Evil, 2002)
Omni Consumer Products (Robocop, 1987)
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, 1993)
Lunar Industries (Moon, 2009)
Flint Tropics (Semi-Pro, 2008)
Initech (Office Space, 1999)
Dunder Mifflin Inc. (The Office, 2005)
Cyberdyne Systems (Terminator 2 – Judgment Day, 1991)
NorthAm Robotics (Bicentennial Man, 1986)
Paper Street Soap Company (Fight Club, 1999)
Multi-National United (District 9, 2009)
La Ratatouille Restaurant (Ratatouille, 2007)
Insuricare (The Incredibles, 2004)
ACME (Loonely Tunes, 1948)
RDA (Avatar, 2009)
Trans American Airline (Airplane, 1980)
Duff Beer (The Simpsons, 1989)
Encom (Tron, 2011)
Sterling Cooper Draper Price (Mad Men, 20o7)