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Millan Butler
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— design experiments made w my own hands
— millan rhymes with villain
— queer • he/them
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Millan Butler @millanbutler.bsky.social · Jan 29
🗺️ no longer lost but still trying

#graphicdesign #mixedmedia #poster #digitalart
Poster with scanned elements and textures in a red/blue colour palette that reads “I’ve been lost for a while but I’m really trying” stamped multiple times showing the chaotic thawing from personal and intergenerational trauma coming into an (eventual) sense of calm.
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🪻 feeling grateful for the positive things in my life, even while the world looks like it's falling apart

#Poster #typography #digitaldesign #illustration #graphicdesign
Poster of hand-drawn cerulean blue field of flowers over a charcoal background with tightly cropped blackletter text in light blue that reads: "Everything blooms around and within me"
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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🌀 still obsessed with print textures

#print #digital #poster #typography #mentalhealth #blackletter #graphicdesign
Poster of an abstract halftone background with a static downward movement. Destroyed, ink blotted black letter text in a light steely blue reads: "There I go, collapsing into myself again". A personal interpretation of an outgrown coping mechanism.
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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This weeks somatic therapy session ended with a realization. Exploring more of this theme soon.

#poster #typography #graphicdesign #void
A textured poster with an ultraviolet purple palette of an oval shape taking up most of the surface area with the following text: 'What happens when the void doesn't stare back because you're the one in it?' Copy is set in a violet-purple gradient across three lines angled at 45 to the right side of the base of the oval, the text references a quote from Nietzsche: "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you" (and fully aware it references in a way not true to the original interpretation of the quote).
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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🖍️ louder than destruction

heard this quote in a youtube video and I keep coming back to it.

#graphicdesign #poster #typography #digitalart #mixedmedia
Graphic poster comprising of a solid cream coloured background with a number of halftone gradient rainbow-coloured eyes scattered in the background with overlay solid dark charcoal text that reads as a quote, "We have to create. It's the only thing louder than destruction." by Andrea Gibson
April 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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🪞 daily dose of affirmation

#typography #poster #digitaldesign #mixedmedia #graphicdesign #affirmation
Square charcoal grey poster with distorted text inspired by journalism headlines that reads, "I call all of my power back to me", an unknown quote I heard that feels like it's right for this season of my life. A subtle mood ring-inspired gradient is behind the text.
April 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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🪵 new growth

coming out of hibernation with some typography exploration.
ALT for details.

#typography #deathmetal #handlettering #design #anarchy
Death metal logo-inspired typography that reads, CHILDREN OF MONSTERS in split pea green over a cream background. I was inspired by a quote from 6th century philosopher Boethius, "In the halls of power, monsters are made, and their children inherit ruin." Death metal logo-inspired typography that reads, CHILDREN OF MONSTERS outlined in off-white over a distressed charcoal background. I was inspired by a quote from 6th century philosopher Boethius, "In the halls of power, monsters are made, and their children inherit ruin."
March 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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🪦 feeling of the w̶e̶e̶k̶ month

#poster #politics #graphicdesign #illustration #digitalart #rip
March 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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🌍 Some stylized concept work with lots of texture for a recent client project. (All recognizable brand elements have been removed.)

#graphicdesign #productdesign #mixedmedia #poster
Stylized indigo blue collage of graphical drawings for an adult consumable product (are we allowed to say vape or talk about cannabis on bluesky?) with a visual duality between perfect geometric shapes and eroded textures
February 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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🗺️ no longer lost but still trying

#graphicdesign #mixedmedia #poster #digitalart
Poster with scanned elements and textures in a red/blue colour palette that reads “I’ve been lost for a while but I’m really trying” stamped multiple times showing the chaotic thawing from personal and intergenerational trauma coming into an (eventual) sense of calm.
January 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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⚔️ amour armour

ALT for details. #illustration #typography #blackletter #love #shameless #spiky #handdrawn #graphicdesign #blackmetal #queerart
Hand illustrated metal heart with large spikes all over. The word 'Shameless' sits over the illustration in small, eroded blackletter subtly representing horns. This piece has meaning for me around the shame we hold in/for our bodies. Reclaiming our own identity, our very soul, requires shedding the layers of shame.
January 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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🔮 window seat

Made using custom 3D barbed wire + sunset photo on my phone + handwritten lyrics. BTS of my work coming soon 🕸️
#graphicdesign #digitalart #poster #illustration #art
Square poster of a subtle yet calming sky gradient framed within a double set of gnarled barbed wire on a grungy, dark background. Handwritten text also partially border inner barb wire and gradient. As a trauma survivor (aren't we all), learning about and putting up personal boundaries can feel like an impossible task (where to even begin) while still letting in the good things.
January 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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🪐 on a journey out of this tangled mess

quick piece after working on some 3D barbed wire for another project (coming soon). This text feels like a subtle mantra for my 2025

#typography #mentalhealth #posterdesign #digitalart #graphicdesign
Screenprinted square poster of off-white barbed wire on a dark textured background that looks like a night sky, with the words, "Less meaning, more feeling" set in uppercase Neue Montreal Regular. Orange colour symbolizes FEELING, showing up even if we're caught in the barbed wires of our thoughts and habits but moving towards being in the present.
December 29, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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🩻 Something a little different. Check ALT for more info.

👂🏻 All feedback welcome

#digitalart #collage #graphicdesign #identity #lgbtqart #illustrator
Mixed media digital collage with the subject of an unknown person looking into a mirror at a reflection of themselves. Within the silhouette of their reflection, a person is walking away in the near distance, with a pixelated landscape projected behind the reflection. Spoon lying on floor to the left of the person looking at their reflection. For me this piece symbolizes the dissonance between identity on the outside and how parts of you feel on the inside.
December 14, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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things I wish on my worst enemies 👺

#typography #posterdesign #digitalart #graphicdesign #rotinhell
Poster of bold, distressed red uppercase text that reads, “Rot in hell” with the letters of each word bleeding together an illustrated row of flames below text, off-center over a grungy, queasy green abstract background.
December 8, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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I don’t think a day went by this year that didn’t remind me of this message on society

#typography #poster #illustrator #print #wereallfucked
White text in bottom right that reads, “We learn nothing” on a black background with overlayed abstract elements. One overlay is a multi-coloured, screenprinting-inspired graphic texture with a second overlay in white mimicking the reflection of glass.
December 5, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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⚪️ Blackletter in glass exploration

#typography #graphicdesign #blackletter #artdirection #poster
Uppercase blackletter text that reads "Magnum Opus" in a glass, almost chrome-like finish entered at the bottom of the image on a black background
November 19, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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#poster #graphicdesign #typography
Poster design: "Visualizing the invisible 2024. Feel, Think, Shape" in black uppercase sans serif font font on a white background with a pink graphic of the author with sitting with their legs splayed out connecting the three words (feel-think-shape) together.
November 19, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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⚛️ Find people doing cool shit by doing your own cool shit.

Follow me for more graphic design work.
#typography #posterdesign #graphicdesign #illustration #art #poster #inspiration
Purple Chrome Text that reads "Inspiring" repeatedly with the phrase "Find people doing cool shit by doing your own cool shit" in the negative space of the 'P' and 'G' of the word.
April 10, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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💬 language is my second language (2023)

Translating a concept from inside my head to an external audience is an ongoing learning opportunity.

#posterdesign #typography #graphicdesign #language #raygun #illustrator
Poster in the style of David Carson/Ray Gun Magazine that says "Language is my second language" with a group of shapes that move from abstract top-left to the letter "L' in bottom-right
April 10, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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🫶 it's ok to feel that way

(a visual reminder for myself)

#typography #typedesign #graphicdesign #mentalhealth
Graphic of a field of grass with inverted colour and text overlay reading "It's OK (to feel that way)" in a distorted yet friendly font.
April 10, 2024 at 3:18 PM