INDUSTRY LEADERS SINCE 2004

A street artist is on a scaffold painting a mural of a smiling woman holding a flower on a brick wall. The mural features a large, closely cropped portrait with dark hair, glasses, and a broad smile. The artist is wearing sunglasses, gloves, and a hoodie, and is smiling at the camera.

OUR SERVICES

  • Hand-Painted Advertising

  • Commercial Productions

  • Public Art

  • Content Capture

  • Custom Creative

  • Consultation & Alterations

  • Artist Sourcing

A busy city street scene with cars and pedestrians, featuring a large mural on a building's wall depicting characters from a video game and the text 'Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars'.

HISTORY

Twenty years ago, our founders single-handedly revived the historic craft of hand-painted advertising. Today, we prioritize hand-crafted excellence in the age of digital convenience, and time-honored tradition in spite of instant gratification. The care behind our work makes every mural meaningful and memorable.

“Contrary to popular belief, New York's most spectacular art isn't hanging at the Museum of Modern Art. It adorns the sides of buildings in some of the city's most interesting neighborhoods, much of it painted by one company; the aptly named Colossal Media.”

The Wall Street Journal logo in black and white.
Street artist creating a mural of a large glass of iced coffee with swirling coffee and milk on a white wall.

HAND-PAINTED ADVERTISING

Colossal Media is the industry’s largest provider of hand painted campaigns. We work through rain, shine, and polar vortex to create advertising murals for the world’s most influential brands. Our murals are held to the highest standard, so our clients can enjoy the highest wow-factor.

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An artist painting a large mural of a basketball player in mid-air performing a slam dunk inside an arena, while a person takes a photo of the mural.

CUSTOM PRODUCTIONS

When it comes to experience, licensing and insurance requirements, no other company can match Colossal’s ability to execute large-scale commercial paintings and productions worldwide. Our combination of highly trained Painters and professional Project Managers allows us to skillfully and efficiently complete your next project.

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A mural of a rat holding a paintbrush painted on the side of a building, with workers painting the mural on scaffolding below.

PUBLIC ART

Our extensive relationships in the art world have enabled us to collaborate with the biggest players in the industry — from iconic street artists to world-renowned art museums. Colossal’s commitment to displaying public art on a grand scale transforms dreary walls into sources of community pride.

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LOCATIONS

Colossal Media has permanent advertorial inventory in key DMAs, as well as an ever-growing network of locations in major markets nationwide. We are OAAA members, audited by GeoPath, fully licensed and insured. Our Acquisitions Team consists of cultural connectors who don’t follow trends—they predict them.

A map of the United States with selected cities highlighted in yellow and marked with paintbrush icons. The cities include Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Nashville, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and a city in northern Ohio.

PROCESS

We work through rain, shine, and polar vortex to create advertising murals for the world’s most influential brands. Colossal’s army of highly-trained painters produce large-scale photorealistic murals with an unparalleled level of efficiency and precision.

Person using a laser pointer on a large, projected medical illustration of a human face, showing facial muscles and nerves.

PATTERNING

First, we break down the digital artwork based on form, value, and color. We project this tracing onto butcher paper, then burn a perforated outline of the artwork map.

A person painting outdoors near a body of water, surrounded by open cans of colorful paint on a table.

MIXING

In a special room outfitted for natural light exposure, we custom mix each palette to match the printed artwork. 
We use a dab test to ensure the hues are perfect before we send paint out to the wall.

Workers installing or repairing a flat roof with rolls of roofing material.

POUNCING

With the butcher paper we burned in the patterning room, we rub loose charcoal over the perforations to pounce a map of the artwork onto the mural wall.

Workers installing a large mural of a woman's face on a brick wall.

PAINTING

Now, we do what we do best. Our crew of highly-trained painters reproduce the original artwork at a colossal scale with mind-bending efficiency and photo-real precision.

Two male construction workers standing on a rooftop with city buildings in the background. One is holding a rope and wearing a black beanie and red sweatshirt, the other is wearing a black jacket with an orange harness. There is a skateboard and some climbing equipment nearby.

Apprentice
program

We’re taking on apprentices in New York. If you can use a brush that’s great, if you’ve painted houses that’s better, but if you can use a hammer drill properly, that’s money. If you want to be part of a movement, work in an environment that’s both mentally and physically challenging and have a career unlike any other, then we’d love to meet you.

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