About

Trevor Messersmith is an award-winning photographer and graphic designer based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Trevor provides creative direction to a wide variety of online and print projects through 80east Design, a studio he started in 2002.

Among other venues, Trevor’s artwork has been exhibited at the California Museum of Photography, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, the Center for Fine Art Photography, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, SCOPE Miami, and the Barcelona Foto Biennale. He has been featured in The PRINT Awards, AIGA’s New York State of Design, Print Magazine’s  Typography and Lettering Awards, the Mobile Photography Awards, the Pollux Awards, Tumblr Radar, PRINT Magazine’s Regional Design Annual, the International Design Awards, Creative Quarterly, and Graphic Design USA. Publications include the photography books Fauxlaroids, Double Apollo, Blümen, and Objectives. Trevor earned a B.A. from Bard College in photography. He also studied graphic design at Rhode Island School of Design.