Art Vespa: Mock Vespanomic Ads with Heroes stars!
November 14, 2007I admit, I’m a “Heroes” fanboy. I finished the entire Season One in a iPod video marathon. Now I’m hooked with Season 2 with it’s 4th episode (The Kindness of Strangers) being the best ever for me!
Anyway, I’ve seen this picture of Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) sitting on a Vespa before. But after seeing picture another Heroes cast member on a scooter, an idea struck me to make some mock Vespa print ads. For the ad copy, I used a line from this actual Vespa advertisment seen on the road. To make the ad series more relevant, the slant of the ads tackled issues taken up in Vespanomics, like traffic and rising gas prices.
Of course, I did try to input subtle humor into the ads, but I guess only peeps who watch the show would really get it. I used the closest comicbook-like font I could find for the tagline at the bottom of the layout to make it more familiar to fans of the series. Here’s the first one…
I don’t think you’d ever guess the next one featured in this mock Vespa/Vespanomics ad series.
Why, it’s it’s Hiro Nakamura’s faithful sidekick friend — Ando Masahashi. The character is played by actor James Kyston Lee; hmmm… his name sounds more Chinese than Japanese. Here’s his ad:
Hey! If you find other Heroes characters riding a Vespa, send it my way. It’ll be cool to add more to this ad series. 
Save on gas consumption. Save the world!
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J0HNRANA
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COOL!!!
Nice ads
It works well
Have any of the Vespa types seen it and commented?
Are you ar professional?
Regards
C
Glad you liked it, Mario & Charlie.
Charlie: Nope, the Vespa folks haven’t seen it. I’d be curious to hear what they think of it.
Ando’s no superhero!!
So how can he say that, lol!!