"Visual Futurist," Mead explained, "is a name I invented for myself. I got a call from New York; they were doing end rolls for Blade Runner, the second movie I’d ever worked on. I’m not a member of any of the Academy categories such as production designer, art director, so forth, so I had to make something up on the fly. Visual futurist was a kind of convenient, short description of dealing with the future, which I most often do as a design request, and visual, because I can paint and draw and do all those wonderful arty things. So Visual Futurist was… sort of vaguely specific," Mead said with a laugh.