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33 Powerful And Creative Print Ads That’ll Make You Look Twice
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33 Powerful And Creative Print Ads That’ll Make You Look Twice

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Most print adverts out there are annoying, but given the number of professionals working in the marketing and advertising industries, they’re bound to come up with something fresh and creative sooner or later. We’ve searched the web and collected some of the most creative print ads we could find.

Some of the best ads feature clever tongue-in-cheek jokes that make us laugh, other creative ads have clever puns that make us think, and some even make us react emotionally. The Crisis Relief print ad especially excels at this last point. It’s kind of these companies to respect us by appealing to our intellect or sense of humor with creative designs rather than merely trying to catch our attention with a simple low-cut neckline or flashy colors.

Most of these examples of advertisements don’t just advertise the company or cause behind them; they also make an actual point. So if you don’t understand the angle of these clever ads at first, give it some time and think about it.

Businesses have been trying to cram things down people’s throats for about as long as they’ve existed, but how they wanted to do it wasn’t always so sophisticated. Here’s a post we wrote about vintage print advertisements that would have been either banned or denounced by the public if they were published today.

Maybe if more printed ads looked like this, we wouldn’t hate them so much. Take a look!

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    Caleb Killett
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Durex: Extra large one changed my life. (Plz say in bri’ish axcent)

    K Madd
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Lego one made me look twice! At first I saw Lol Imagine!

    Jaguarundi
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    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love the play on words and imagination in these advertisements. A few did make me look twice, the lube ad especially. These are why I love Bored Panda!

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    Caleb Killett
    Community Member
    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Durex: Extra large one changed my life. (Plz say in bri’ish axcent)

    K Madd
    Community Member
    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Lego one made me look twice! At first I saw Lol Imagine!

    Jaguarundi
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love the play on words and imagination in these advertisements. A few did make me look twice, the lube ad especially. These are why I love Bored Panda!

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