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TREVOR GILCHRIST

FULL STACK CREATIVE

Thirty years of hands-on creative work (and creative oversight) across the full spectrum of brand, motion, print, and screen. I’ve worked as a designer, art director, motion designer, brand lead, creative director, and as the owner of my own design practice. The constant through-line is breadth with depth.

I trained in agencies where the standards were uncompromising and the discipline was strategic brand positioning executed in print—Landor, Ogilvy, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Fitch. I carried that rigor (especially typographic discipline) into motion and film work for Sony Pictures, Disney Imagineering, HBO, A52, Zoic, Warner Bros., Universal, and The Third Floor—spanning title sequences, motion design, moodboards, editing, color, sound, and final delivery.

More recently, I led creative at Gnomon, NUC University, and Langara, building (and rebuilding) complete brand systems end to end: identity, voice, print, web, social, and filmed content—accountable for every surface and every deliverable. Most recently, operating my own studio, I founded and built NowCook from the ground up, shaping the value proposition, identity, voice, UI/UX, and customer journey, alongside client work for Nvidia, Quadron, Arcana.ai Labs, and LinkedIn.

I can assemble and lead project-based creative teams when the work calls for it, or operate solo from my studio across a full suite of disciplines (including AI) when that’s the most efficient path.

Tooling-wise, I’m fluent across Adobe, Cinema 4D, DaVinci Resolve (edit and grade through final delivery), FCPX, and Figma, and I’m comfortable across the working AI stack: Claude, Claude Code, Midjourney, Codex, Nano, and Perplexity.

"As Executive Director of The DAVE School, I worked with Trevor during a major repositioning of the college. His work contributed to significant gains in admissions interest, record enrollment, and market recognition. The insight he brings to complex brand, message, and market perception challenges allows him to quickly identify what is unclear, understand why the message is not landing, and turn that into stronger positioning, sharper language, and better creative direction. He brings strategic thinking, design excellence, executive judgment, and the rare ability to create clarity when the work is complex. He is thoughtful, self-sufficient, deadline-driven, confidential, and highly professional. Trevor moves important work forward, and I highly recommend him."

Gina Rhodes
Gina Rhodes
Executive Director, The DAVE School

"My business partners and I first met Trevor during a planned business collaboration between our international recruitment company and the Gnomon School. In his capacity as their Creative Director, we were in daily contact, hammering out the strategic roadmap for our new venture, which meant many hours filling whiteboards, and poring over data, metrics and budgets. His depth of knowledge of the industry, the psychology of the audience and his ability to bring structure and direction to raw ideas proved absolutely invaluable. When we subsequently launched The Center for Entertainment Arts (CEA), it was Trevor we turned to for our branding; messaging; the design of our first view book; our language and a mountain of marketing, launch and promotional work.""

Diwaker Ghandi
Diwaker Ghandi
CEO at Centre for Entertainment Arts

"As Executive Director of The DAVE School, I worked with Trevor during a major repositioning of the college. His work contributed to significant gains in admissions interest, record enrollment, and market recognition. The insight he brings to complex brand, message, and market perception challenges allows him to quickly identify what is unclear, understand why the message is not landing, and turn that into stronger positioning, sharper language, and better creative direction. He brings strategic thinking, design excellence, executive judgment, and the rare ability to create clarity when the work is complex. He is thoughtful, self-sufficient, deadline-driven, confidential, and highly professional. Trevor moves important work forward, and I highly recommend him."

Gina Rhodes
Gina Rhodes
Executive Director, The DAVE School

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TREVOR GILCHRIST

323.712.1772

323.712.1772

© 2026 Trevor Gilchrist. All rights reserved.

© 2026 Trevor Gilchrist. All rights reserved.

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TREVOR GILCHRIST

323.712.1772

© 2026 Trevor Gilchrist. All rights reserved.