World's Best Print Ads, 2011-12

All 38 executions from gold-winning Press campaigns at Cannes

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We're still catching up on the many hundreds of winners from this year's Cannes Lions festival. Today, we look at the top print ads—the Grand Prix and gold winners from the Press Lions contest.

It's a varied bunch, offering everything from sly and subtle jokes (Volkswagen) to broad comedy (McDonald's) to poignant messages of loss (Amnesty International) and esoteric exercises in typography (Mercedes-Benz). Most of the executions are intricately art directed, none more so than JWT Shanghai's work for Maxam toothpaste, showing ancient ruins carved into human teeth.

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