Futura may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

Futura International Airways Futura International Airways was an airline with its head office in the ''Zona Facturación'' on the property of Palma de Mallorca Airport in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. It operated scheduled services and charter flights for tour operators and oth ...

, a former airline based in Spain ** Futura Gael, a former Irish subsidiary airline of Futura International Airways * Tikal Futura, a shopping, business and hotel complex in Guatemala City, Guatemala * Futura plus, a Serbian wholesale and retail company * Futura, a defunct British paperback publisher, now part of

Little, Brown Book Group Little, Brown Book Group is a UK publishing company created in 1988, with multiple predecessors. Since 2006 Little, Brown Book Group has been owned by Hachette UK, a subsidiary of Hachette Livre. It was acquired in 2006 from Time Warner of New ...

. * Futura, one of the several names of the UFO religion Siderella

Brands and marques

* Gibson Futura, an electric guitar *

Futura (typeface) Futura is a Sans-serif#Classification, geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927. Designed as a contribution on the New Frankfurt-project, it is based on geometric shapes, especially the circle, similar in spirit ...

, a typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner * Futura (cooker), a product of Hawkins Cookers Limited * Royal Futura, a portable typewriter produced from 1958 to 1962 * Futura (clothing), a Dutch clothing brand.

Vehicles

* Aprilia Futura, a motorcycle *

Lincoln Futura The Lincoln Futura is a concept car promoted by Ford's Lincoln brand, designed by Ford's lead stylists Bill Schmidt and John Najjar, and hand-built by Ghia in Turin, Italy, at a cost of $250,000 (equivalent to $ in ). Displayed on the auto s ...

, a Ford concept car * Ford Futura, a car made by Ford Australia * Suzuki Futura, a

Suzuki Carry The is a kei truck produced by the Japanese automaker Suzuki. The microvan version was originally called the Carry van until 1982 when the passenger van versions were renamed as the . In Japan, the Carry and Every are ''kei cars'' but the Suzuk ...

commercial vehicle made by Suzuki of Indonesia since 1991 *

VDL Futura The Futura is a range of Coach (bus), coaches manufactured by VDL Bus & Coach at Valkenswaard in the Netherlands since 1982. A derivative of the Futura produced from 1999 to 2011 was the Magiq. The model was manufactured for many years by Bova as ...

, a model of double decker and single decker coach models manufactured by VDL Bus and Coach

Periodicals

* ''Futura'' (magazine), a monthly French comic book magazine in the 1970s * ''Futura'' (science fiction magazine), published in Croatia 1992–2007

Film and TV

Rai Futura Rai Futura was an Italian entertainment TV channel owned by RAI and launched May 30, 2005 on timeshares with Rai Doc. Scheduling Its programmes were dedicated to cinema, music, video games, comic books and television, politics, and books. * ''L ...

, an Italian entertainment TV channel *

Futura (TV channel) Canal Futura (''Futura Channel''), also known as Futura, is a Brazilian paid educational television channel. It is owned by Fundação Roberto Marinho, the philanthropy branch of Grupo Globo, operated by Globo and was founded on September 22, 1997 ...

, Brazilian educational channel * Futura, the name of the ''

Maschinenmensch The ''Maschinenmensch'' (literally 'machine-human' in German language, German) is a fictional humanoid robot featured in Thea von Harbou's novel ''Metropolis (novel), Metropolis'' and Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927 film), film adaption of the nove ...

'' in the original script of the film ''Metropolis'' * Futura, the home world of the eponymous hero in the television cartoon series ''

Colonel Bleep ''Colonel Bleep'' is a 1957 American science fiction animated TV series which was the first color cartoon series made for television. It was created and written by Robert D. Buchanan and Jack Schleh on June 8, 1956, and was animated by Soundac, ...

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Music and entertainment

Futura Records Futura Records is a French record company and jazz record label founded in 1969 by Gérard Terronès. Marge Records is a notable subsidiary label. The label changed its name in 2018 into Futura Marge. Roster * Richard Accart * Françoise Ach ...

, a French record company and Jazz label * Radio Futura, a Spanish pop rock group * ''

La Futura ''La Futura'' is the fifteenth studio album by American rock band ZZ Top, released on September 8, 2012. It is the band's first album in nine years, following '' Mescalero'', and peaked at number 5 on the ''Billboard'' "Top Rock Albums" chart. '' ...

'', an album by the American rock band ZZ Top * ''Futura'', an album by Mexican band DLD * ''Futura'', an album by Bosnian rapper Jala Brat

Sport

FC Futura FC Futura (abbreviated Futura) is a football club from Porvoo in Finland. The club was formed in 1992 and their home ground is at the Porvoon keskuskenttä. The other venue used by the club is the Porvoon Pallokenttä. The men's first team cu ...

, a football club from Finland * Futura Cup, a hockey trophy of the Ligue Nord-Americaine de Hockey, Quebec

Other uses

Futura (graffiti artist) Leonard Hilton McGurr (born November 17, 1955), known as Futura, and formerly known as Futura 2000, is an American artist. Futura began painting graffiti as a teenager in the 1970s in New York and crossed over into the early 1980s art boom. K ...

(formerly known as Futura 2000), a graffiti artist * ''Futura'', a play written by Jordan Harrison and presented by the National Asian American Theater Company * ''

Salix futura ''Salix futura'' is a species of willow native to central Japan. It is a deciduous In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs th ...

'', a species of willow native to Japan