A collection of things made & things being made

I make
things.

Digital products, photographs, objects and places shaped by curiosity.

Explore the work

Michael standing in a tree-lined city street — MICHAEL, SOMEWHERE ELSE / 2026

PORTRAIT / 02

ANOTHER SIDE / PHOTO TO COME

PORTRAIT / 03

IN THE WORKSHOP / PHOTO TO COME

PORTRAIT / 04

OUT SOMEWHERE / PHOTO TO COME

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Things worth picking up.

Projects, experiments and useful loose ends. Pick one up or put the whole bench in order.

Drag anything around. Click it when you want the story.

20i welcome package with printed paper, mug and branded materials

01 / DIGITAL & PHYSICAL

20i

Product and brand work, seen through the things people can hold.

Case study coming together

02 / AGENCY WORK

Wish Agency

Art direction, campaigns, websites and product work across a varied agency portfolio.

Project imagery available

Two collaborators in speculative survival clothing with a kit case in a desert landscape

03 / SPECULATIVE DESIGN

MCI

Imagining a world, then making the objects that might belong in it.

Selected imagery available

04 / ART DIRECTION & CONSTRUCTION

MAS.CO

A survival crate and campaign exploring possessions, scarcity and what people really need.

Project imagery available

05 / BRANDING & 3D DESIGN

Leeds Gin

Bottle concepts, identity details and brand applications developed with Allied Glass.

Selected imagery available

06 / EXHIBITION & MAKING

Mabgate Exhibition

The “Shithole” sign, from workshop pieces to an object in the room.

Process and installation imagery

Layered portrait photographed through reflective glass

07 / PHOTOGRAPHY · FOCUS POINT

Photography

People, places and project moments selected from a much larger visual archive.

Selected photographs available

A handmade scaffold board shelf installed in a home

08 / OBJECTS & COMMERCE

The Board Forge

A small site for the shelves I was making in Mansfield.

Website imagery to come

INDEPENDENT
BARBERSHOPANONYMISED WEBSITE STUDY

09 / WEBSITE EXPERIMENT

Independent Barbershop

A local website study with its original name and location withheld.

Anonymised imagery pending

10 / ONGOING

The bungalow

Plans, dust and the useful discovery that no room stays finished for long.

Still being made

A room partway through renovation, with exposed plaster and working materials

Always in the middle of something.

I’m Michael Butler, a designer, photographer and maker in Nottingham. The work here moves between screens, spaces, objects and whatever I’m curious enough to learn next.

THE PATTERN

I get interested in things. Then I try to make them.

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