Launching Yet Another Website (But This One’s Mine)
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a Star Trek-obsessed art director, a pile of sketchbooks, and an alarming number of browser tabs decide to form a committee, the answer is: my new website.
This site is basically Mission Control for everything I do: branding, illustration, Webflow builds, weird future-facing experiments, and the occasional “what if Starfleet had an in-house design team?” thought spiral. It’s part portfolio, part lab, part control panel for the next phase of my work and life.
You’ll find client projects, personal experiments, and the kind of overbuilt navigation structure that only a person who loves both industrial design and spreadsheets could truly appreciate.
Who I Am (Today, At Least)
I’m Chris Butler: Art & Design Director at Vid Monster, futurist, creative problem-solver, and someone who thinks “industrial futurism” is a perfectly reasonable lifestyle choice.
I live at the intersection of:
- Graphic design and storytelling
- Technology and practical workflows
- “What if we just built this ourselves?” and “Sure, how hard could it be?”
On any given day I might be:
- Designing a brand system for a local business that wants to look like it belongs in the next decade
- Building a Webflow site with Relume, then quietly obsessing over spacing by single pixels
- Sketching concepts for environments, signage, or installations that feel like a cross between a factory, a spaceship, and a movie set
- Prototyping some new system to make my work and life run a little more like a starship and a little less like a cluttered garage
Underneath it all is a simple theme: use design, technology, and systems thinking to make things clearer, cooler, and more useful—for clients, for myself, and ideally for whoever stumbles onto this site wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Things This Website Is Supposed To Do (In Theory)
- Showcase client work without burying you in design jargon
- Make it obvious what I do and how to work with me
- Serve as a testing ground for new layouts, workflows, and weird ideas
- Tie together my interests in:
- Branding and visual systems
- Web design and development
- Future-focused thinking and strategic planning
- Stories about how humans and computers can actually collaborate well
“The goal isn’t to look futuristic.
The goal is to actually live a little bit like the future you wish existed—
and then design everything else to catch up.”
If this website does its job, it should feel like a small, well-organized control room: not flashy for its own sake, but efficient, a little obsessive, and quietly prepared for bigger missions ahead.
