With an incisive message and the design to match, a powerful advertisement can stop you dead in your tracks. Today, we look at some ads that do just that — forty ingeniously creative ads that will make you look and think twice:

Creative Ads
Lint Roller Ad
Save The Rain Forest
Copenhagen Zoo Bus The Copenhagen Zoo's creative ad that wraps around a bus.
Feeding Your Cats Instincts
Lego Imagine Ad
WWF Rain Forest Advertisement
Ingeniously Creative Ads
Insurance For Women
Yesterday You Said Tomorrow
Funny Lubrication Ad
Bikini
Superman Elevator Ad
Bose Nose Reduction Ad
Fedex Creative Advertisements
Mothers Demand Action PSA
WonderBra Ad
Weight Watchers Ad
Creative Ads Glasses
Tailgating Isn't Worth It
SwissLife Creative Ads
Sunscreen Ad
Creative Ads Fashion Designer Versus Hells Angel
Nivea Print Ad
Scratch The Ad
Creative Ads Windex
Liking Isn't Helping
Lasik Advertisement An advertisement for a Lasik surgery center in Thailand.
Jeep Wrangler Mount Rushmore Ad
Ingeniously Creative Advertisements
Where Does Your Rubbish Go?
Funny Airport Security Ad
Don't Text And Drive
What's Banned In America
What's Banned In America
Creative Ads World Wildlife Federation
Children See Things DIfferent
Butts
Buckle Up Stay Alive
Adopt A Dog

Thanks to The Roosevelts, Buzzfeed, and Bored Panda for some of the images above.

And if you enjoyed these awesomely creative ads, be sure to check out our other posts on inspirational quotes and interesting quotes that will change how you see the world! Then, check out some of history's most offensive sexist ads.