The promo pictures of the Helena Rubinstein cosmetics feature a woman with a perfect skin...

Now that’s advertising!
 

Coolest movie advertising ever?
 

A selection of creative ad designs on semi-trucks and a tank truck. These pieces of art are only concepts.

5 Parisians inhabit an apartment built by Swedish furniture company IKEA inside a Paris subway station for 6 days, from Jan. 9 to 14. The 581 square feet (54 square meters) apartment is located in Auber station and equipped with IKEA items. Now all Auber metro station passers-by can see the five housemates and their daily activities from morning to night through the glass walls.

Global brands have the deep pockets to hire the most creative and innovative advertising minds. These incredible outside advertising examples illustrate how powerful the imagination can be.

The USA College for Creative Studies has decided to promote their art courses with the help of images used in social advertising against drugs and alcoholism. I wonder how many new students such creativity can attract.

Surely, it could just be a coincidence. Still it is difficult to believe that well-known advertising agencies come up with the same visual images at different times. These are examples of rip-off cases in the world of ads.

Schick Razor 2005 / Gillette 2009

Electricity, lighting and other street poles are ideal place for creative city advertising. Genius pole banners attract attention even at big distances.

Pole Dance Studio

Some of the products that were advertised on these vintage posters are unbelievable.

Don’t take the risk! This is a creative Alfacell bataries advertising campaign with oldschool art.

These are great examples of innovative and creative outdoor advertising campaigns that arrange an unusual performance for their audience. Boring billboards are no longer interesting to the public.

Adidas Incredible GoalKeeper Billboard

These are some very funny magazine and advertising fails. Where are the proofreaders?

The Addams Family hand‏?

This Indian photographer has created numerous stunning photos for ads and collections. See his breathtaking images that will make you think and invoke awe.

There are some amazing crop circles in this world that are unexplained. However, these crop circles are very easy to understand. Some bright marketing executive got the idea to use them for advertising.

In a time of constant advertising bombardments online and offline, sometimes it takes creativity and boldness to catch consumer’s attention. See if you would be swayed by these unique ads.

These are some weird advertising fails. Some are so obvious that is seems impossible that the maker of the advertising would fail to notice them. Most of them are in the form of abbreviations.

One advertising company has come up with a creative way of how to sell an empty space on their billboard.

This is some incredible advertising by Clive Stewart. The advertisements are amazingly creative, subtle, but also direct and to the point. They make you pay attention to the products being advertised.

Oftentimes advertisers dig in to consumer’s serious side by laying out intense and thought provoking advertisements. The following creative but chilling ads will make you think twice before calling the advertising world a vast soulless cesspool. It appears that these ads were meant to catch your attention in a much more meaningful way.

This is some clever and creative tear off advertising. The tear offs are cleverly located to represent something that you wouldn’t normally think of removing. You just can’t resist taking one.

You can't always believe what you see as these photos quite clearly show you.  When hotels and resorts put out their advertising pictures describing their rooms and premises, they don't exactly lie, but it sure isn't truth in advertising either! Getting the right angle can make a model look like he's surfing in a hot tub!

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Next time you’re out walking, take a second to look down – you just might be surprised at the creative street ads right underneath your feet.

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These are the things that real people never say about advertising. They are the things that the advertiser hope you would say but don’t. Real people don’t even think them for that matter.

Designer Viktor Hertz who is based in Sweden uses everything from his favorite movies to some very clever phrases for his inspiration for simple, smart and clever designs that makes you stop and think. He often uses everyday shapes and symbols in his work and gives them new meaning.

These amazing artworks were created by talented New York advertising photographer Steve Bronstein who has a great sense of composition, and knows how to skillfully combine computer graphics with endless fantasy. No wonder he worked for brands, including KitKat, Nintendo, Colgate and Absolut. Steve’s portfolio is a great source of inspiration.

This is supposed to be a 70” TV, but obviously it isn’t. It's easy to see, so let's do some maths.

Advertising and packaging are always a sure way to view a small time capsule from the past. These fantastic retro images will bring back the good ole days, or after viewing them you might be glad that we have forgotten the past and move forward to the future with new ideas in marketing and advertising design.

Because of the rise of apartment thefts in Santiago, Chile, agency DDB decided to show apartment dwellers that it is however easy to break in in their homes. The aim was also to advertise ADT home security systems. They went to several apartments and slid a folded box under the door... See how it works after the break.