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Behind every Trader Joe’s sign is a working artist who painted it
Zoe Seolhee Terrell/Illustration for The Washington Post; Photo by Nicole Craine for The Washington Post Each of the idiosyncratic grocery store’s 500-plus locations has custom-made signage, created by staff artists August 19, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT Comment on this story Comment Growing up, Zoe Terrell dreamed of becoming an artist — she sketched scenes from her local farmers market and even won drawing competitions in her native South Korea. But she eventually learned what many creative people know too well. “My dad was like, ‘Well, drawing is not going to feed you,’ ” Terrell says. So she studied education in college and, after moving to the United States in…