Trevor O'Brien

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Employment and project experience

Senior Designer Apple Inc.
January 2017 - March 2017

UX Designer Airbnb Inc.
January 2019 - March 2019

  • Joined November 2025

Industry experience

  • Media & Entertainment
  • Professional Services
  • Retail

Projects · 1

An immersive exploration of the spaces between sound and silence, memory and presence. This multimedia installation captures the residual impressions left in abandoned and transitional spaces—empty rooms, forgotten corners, threshold moments.

Through a combination of long-exposure photography, field recordings, and suspended sculptural elements, the project invites viewers to pause and attune themselves to what remains when activity ceases. Each piece documents the subtle vibrations of places that once held life: the echo of footsteps in an empty hallway, light moving across a vacant floor, dust particles suspended in afternoon stillness.

The work examines how spaces hold memory, how silence is never truly empty, and how stillness reveals rather than conceals. Visitors are encouraged to move slowly through the installation, allowing their own presence to become part of the temporary ecology of absence and attention.

  • 3D Designer
  • 3D Modeler

Work experience

Layout Artist · Industrial Light and MagicJan 2017 – Jan 2017 · 1 mo

Collaborated with 17 artists to design 6 shows, increasing tickets sales by 8% compared to previous shows. Partnered with management to support end-to-end digital asset product launches, reducing time to release by 7%.

Studio Artist · DisneyJan 2017 – Nov 2025 · 8 yrs 11 mos

Collaborated with 6 artists to scale up drawn character and landscape designs into rendered large-scale concepts. Developed standardized research and storyboard processes, reducing the overall time per project by an average of 2 hours.

Textile Sales Associate · San Francisco Design CenterJan 2013 – Jan 2013 · 1 mo

Designed monthly displays for stores within the region, increasing targeted inventory sales revenue by 9%. Partnered with management team to create ad layouts for print media, increasing organic business by 11%.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Art History · University of California, CA2004 – 2008
Bachelor of Arts, Art History · University of California2004 – 2008
Bachelor of Arts in Art History · University of California, CA2004 – 2008

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