Best print ads of 2012–13

See some of the winners from the Press Lions at Cannes…

01 Grand Prix: Apple iPad mini

Agency: TBWA/Media Arts Lab, Los Angeles
These iPad mini ads, released late last year, were placed on the back covers of several national magazines—including Time, Wired and The New Yorker. The tablet is shown actual size, with its display featuring that magazine’s front cover.

Grand Prix: Apple iPad mini

 

02 Two Gold Lions: Penguin Audiobooks

Agency: McCann, Mumbai
This campaign turned famous authors into headphones.

2 Gold Lions: Penguin Audiobooks

 

03 Two Gold Lions: Sunlight Dishwasher Detergent (Unilever)

Agency: Lowe, Bangkok, Thailand
Get that pig off your plate with Sunlight. An average idea, perhaps, but the illustrations are impressive.

2 Gold Lions: Sunlight Dishwasher Detergent (Unilever)

 

04 Gold Lion: Comedy Central

Agency: Grey, Buenos Aires, Argentina
These ads are an homage to Mad magazine’s “fold-ins.” Fold the page to meet the dotted lines… comedy ensues.

Gold Lion: Comedy Central

 

05 Gold Lion: Dove beauty products (Unilever)

Agency: Ogilvy, São Paulo, Brazil
What follows is one of the drawings from the famous “Real Beauty Sketches” campaign, which won the Titanium Grand Prix this year. At left is a woman as described to a sketch artist by the woman. At right is the same woman as described by a stranger.

Gold Lion: Dove beauty products (Unilever)

Courtesy Tim Nudd, Adweek