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Risen Through the Ranks: Colossal Media’s Supreme Janine

Janine Taylor is the first woman to progress from Apprentice to Expert Painter at Colossal Media.

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Woman painting the colour purple on a portion of a wall with other portions already painted in red and white.
Colossal Media’s Janine Taylor on the brush for a Coca-Cola mural sign.

The apprentice programme at Colossal Media isn’t for the fainthearted but the rewards are a solid grounding in painting large-format mural signs, and everything that comes before putting brush to brick.

This year, the Brooklyn-based firm celebrated the first woman to progress from Apprentice to Expert Painter: Janine Taylor, aka Supreme Janine. She took some time out from walldogging to share her experience in this short film.

Janine Taylor up to her neck in paint while working on a Colossal Media mural sign for Coca-Cola.

If you’re feeling inspired and think you might have what it takes to join the Colossal crew, then check out their careers page, which includes an email list for notifications of future vacancies.

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There’s more on the Colossal apprenticeship programme in this bl.ag online piece, and you’ll fine a profile of the firm, celebrating its 20th anniversary, in BLAG 06.

To close, here’s more of Janine doing her thing. Congratulations!

Black and white photo of a woman applying the circle to the registered trademark symbol that sits just to the right of the Coca-Cola logotype.

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